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To play Maria Callas, Angelina Jolie had to learn how to breathe again

Angelina Jolie never expected to hit all the notes. But finding the breath of Maria Callas was enough to bring things out of Jolie that she didn’t even know were in her.

Movie Review: Angelina Jolie is graceful and sharp as opera star Maria Callas in ‘Maria’

★★★★

Angelina Jolie dazzles Venice Film Festival with ‘Maria,’ a biopic about opera legend Maria Callas

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How Angelina Jolie found her voice again in ‘Maria’ biopic

Angelina Jolie says playing Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria” was a therapeutic experience that helped her find her voice again.

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Angelina Jolie finds her voice again, for Callas biopic ‘Maria’

Angelina Jolie was ‘terrified’ to take to the stage and sing as Maria Callas in ‘Maria’

Angelina Jolie and the cast of ‘Maria’ arrive for Venice press conference

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Movie Review: Pinochet as a vampire in surreal, frightening ‘El Conde’

The Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is not dead in Pablo Larraín’s “El Conde.” He is instead a 250-year-old vampire living in semi-exile and wishing for death in this audacious allegory about history’s tendency to repeat itself, shot in sublime, otherworldly black and white, writes Lindsey Bahr in

★★★★