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Maria by Callas

Maria by Callas: In Her Own Words

2017

Tom Volf

Documentary, Self: Maria Callas

7.1

796

Documentary An intimate look at the life and work of Greek-American opera singer, Maria Callas, as told in her own words.

	Author	Review
United States	Scott Tobias Variety	"[It] stands as a necessary corrective to decades of bad press (...) It’s an unalloyed tribute to her as a musical genius (...) The doc doubles as an accessible primer for the less schooled, too"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A captivating yet distinctly odd hybrid (...) What is gratifying about the film is Volf’s obvious love for and devotion to Callas"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Devotees of 'La Divina' will love sifting through the mysteries of Maria Callas, but this documentary might be a struggle for opera neophytes."	NEU
United States	James Jorden The New York Observer	"The qualities that make this film so irresistible also doom it (...) The narrative arc focuses on Callas’ fall without much sense of what her rise was all about."	NEU
United States	Derek Smith Slant	"A loving, albeit meandering, tribute (...) As much as Callas’s own words help to tell her story as Callas the soprano, they often fall short in elucidating Callas the person (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Emily Yoshida Vulture	"While 'Callas' certainly seems biased by the voice of its own subject, it’s also an intimate primer on her and her work. It also feels incomplete"	NEU
Chile	Rodrigo González M. Diario La Tercera	https://www.filmaffinity.com/mx/adm/pro-reviews.php?movie-id=516451&rp=%2Fmx%2Ffilm516451.html#	POS

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