Maria Callas, Lady Gaga and divas of a different stripe: Peter Bradshaw’s picks of the Venice film festival

Maria Callas, Lady Gaga and divas of a different stripe: Peter Bradshaw’s picks of the Venice film festival

Meaty roles for Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig and George Clooney will feature alongside premieres of auteur dramas from across the globe

‘Eager not to miss it’: Hollywood glitz to return to Venice film festival

Screenwriter Steven Knight and director Pablo Larraín have confected this intense biopic about the final years of the OG diva herself, Maria Callas; she is living in Paris in retirement, a haunted figure in dark glasses, and Angelina Jolie is probably the only actor who could take this on (although Jennifer Coolidge could give it a go). We can surely look forward to some juicy flashbacks with Jolie giving us La Divina in her sensational prime and, given that Maria was in a relationship with Aristotle Onassis, Knight could even have imagined a colossal King Kong v Godzilla-type diva-off with Jackie Kennedy.

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