2024-12-18
33 分钟Director Pablo Larraín discusses his new film, Maria, with fellow Director Mike Mills in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, he discusses his process of finding the little details in his film worlds, the importance of architecture in the cinematography of his films, and how he worked with Actor Angelina Jolie to establish the presence of the titular character. The film follows the famed soprano as she retreats to Paris after a glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye. With time to settle and reflect, she reckons with both her legacy and her identity. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://dga.org/Events/2025/January2025/Maria_QnA_1224
And I think Angelina is someone that brought a sense of stoicism to the character that I didn't entirely see at the beginning.
I struggled a little bit with it and I always ask her to do maybe another take with a slightly different kind of understanding of certain emotional aspects of what we were doing.
And then after three or three weeks in, I just stopped asking for that.
Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.
In this episode, the last days of famed opera singer Maria Callas are chronicled in director Pablo Lorraine's biographical drama Maria.
The film follows the famed soprano as she retreats to Paris after a glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye.
With time to settle and reflect, she reckons with both her legacy and her identity.
In addition to Maria, Lorraine's other directorial credits include the feature films the Club, El Conde, Emma, Jackie Neruda, no and Spencer and episodes of the miniseries Lycee's Story and Homemade.
Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Lorraine spoke with director Mike Mills about filming Maria.
Listen on for their spoiler filled conversation.
Hi, everyone.
It's a lot of light.
Who's gaffing this?
Thanks everyone for hanging out and coming to see the film.
And I was so impressed with your movie.
Like, it's a good thing you're a director because it's really well directed.
The, like, all the cinematic elements, first of all the performance, obviously, but then place and location are so rich and so felt and obviously those two elements, the camera work, the quality of the film itself, like all these ingredients are like, so poised and subtly, gently, beautifully done.
Just the exposures even.
I was marveling at the precision of all exposures and I really just had like a director to director thing.
Like, well, how in the hell did you come up with that whole language?