Director Franco Zeffirelli's intense, 20-year friendship with celebrated opera star Maria Callas — whose magnificent displays of artistic temperament should shame today's vulgar pretenders to divatude — inspired this poky, oddly uninvolving fiction spun around her lonely last days. Paris, 1977: Larry Kelly (Jeremy Irons), in town to produce a concert by a Sex Pistols-like punk band called Bad Dreams and in the midst of a passionate flirtation with a much younger painter named Michael (Jay Rodan), receives disturbing news from an old friend, English journalist Sarah Keller (Joan Plowright). Callas (Fanny Ardant), Larry's client until the disastrous Japanese ...
Released:
2002
Rated:
NR
Length:
108 mins