“I can show her
as a woman and as a person.
How much she suffered and
gave up.
I wanted it get behind that voice. I want to show
her search
for absolute perfection and integrity.
These are the things most
people don’t know.”
-Franco
Zeffirelli
CALLAS FOREVER SYNOPSIS
Callas Forever: At the beginning
of this engrossing story, Larry Kelly (the delectable Jeremy Irons) has
become a manager of rock bands – much easier to handle, he asserts,
than a temperamental opera star. Managing
Maria Callas’s late career has left him scorched by the star’s
brilliant fire. Visiting her palatial
Paris apartment, Kelly is shocked to find a broken and reclusive Callas, humiliated by the deterioration of her voice. Determined to re-ignite her passion and restore her legacy,
he convinces her to take on an important project: a film of the opera
Carmen, in which she will lip-sync her own, glorious recording of many
years previous.
Thus begins a reawakening of their former relationship, mixing creative
passion, genius, and drive in an incendiary cocktail. The stars are
ably supported by a feisty Joan Plowright as their mutually supportive
journalist friend, newcomer Jay Rodan as Larry’s handsome artist
boyfriend, and a wonderfully steamy performance from sexy Gabriel Garko
as the tenor who worships Callas and yearns for his own opportunity for
greatness.
The special relationship between Callas (a
luminous
Fanny Ardant, reprising her stage portrayal) and her former manager
forms the heart of this compelling fictional imagining of the diva’s
swan song, written and directed by the late Callas’s friend and
colleague, Franco Zeffirelli (ROMEO AND JULIET), in a worthy tribute to
his legendary friend. CALLAS FOREVER
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