Now comes Maria Callas’s turn — the first of Larraín’s divas to actually be a diva — and Angelina Jolie’s as well. The performance is, like the earlier two, brilliant and daring and sad; the movie itself is surprisingly inert. “Maria” is ...

Where the opera star Maria Callas differs from Princess Diana or First Lady Jackie Kennedy in Larraín's conception is that she desperately wants to be on (or return to) the public stage; her most authentic self is only complete with a loving audience.