106. Pablo Larrain: Maria

After a rocky relationship between Deep Cut and Mr. Pablo Larrain, we come back to the final film in Larrain’s “important 20th century white women” trilogy (as Ben describes it). Will Larrain redeem himself with a portrait of the final days of Maria Callas’ life? Or will he and Stephen Knight sh*t the bed again? Wilson praises Angelina Jolie’s comeback performance, Ben praises how pretty the film is, and Eli praises the prop glasses, but is all that enough to get the film over the line? Listen to find out. 

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

03:33 General reactions

10:05 Saving graces of the film

14:10 Narrative

22:33 The Mandrax of it all

24:53 Supporting characters

27:36 Flashbacks and musical biopics

30:50 We pitch Maria Callas biopics

33:01 Pablo Larrain power ranking

38:18 Outro