WHAT IT'S ABOUT Angelina Jolie plays the renowned opera singer Maria Callas in this biopic, which like the other similar films from its director Pablo Larraín tells this enormously impactful person's story through the prism of a fixed moment in her life.

Certainly, that’s one takeaway from Pablo Larraín's new Maria Callas biopic, Maria. Maria stars Angelina Jolie as the famed Greek American opera singer who rose to fame in a flash and burned out just as spectacularly.