For Callas fans, this is a winner. For others, it should at least be interesting.
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02/03/05
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Callas Forever (2004)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:8
Rotten:13
Average Rating:5.5/10
Theatrical Release:Nov 5, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $305,060
Synopsis: 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. ... [More]
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Joan Plowright, Jay Rodan
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
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Reviews for Callas Forever
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Top CriticThe film's portrait of the singer is indelible. The story as a whole, however, doesn't hold together, primarily because the imaginary characters and situations that surround her are so inadequately sketched.
01/28/05
Top CriticA film that forgets to bring its central character to life.
12/24/04
Top CriticFor all the devotion Zeffirelli professes to Callas' legacy, the script reduces her to a cartoon.
12/23/04
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12/17/04
Top CriticAlthough the film will hold little appeal for non-opera buffs, its warmth trumps its clichés, odd casting and overacting.
12/09/04
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12/04/04
Top CriticGoes far deeper into one man's opera-diva fetish than most people will want to follow.
11/29/04
Top CriticIt's a small-scale premise for a movie and, given its wooden, dubbed dialogue (a supreme irony), it's an experience purely for Callas fans.
11/29/04
Top CriticOn about five different levels, Callas Forever constitutes grave robbery.
11/28/04
Top CriticBy aspiring no higher than campy adulation, it ill serves the memory of the most storied opera diva of the last century.
11/26/04
Top CriticMost of the budget seems to have gone to the moments of Carmen that we see; they look sumptuous and robust, and the surrounding film looks, well, like a low-budget art movie.
11/26/04
Top CriticThough campy at times, Callas Forever is a generous offering, full of flamboyant characters and grand performances.
11/24/04
Top CriticCampy and clichéd.
11/05/04
Top CriticThis fictional 'what if' scenario is a bit campy and stagey, like a session of Opera 101.
11/05/04
Top CriticA lip-synching hall of mirrors, it is essentially a piece of highbrow karaoke.
11/04/04
Top CriticThe result is not only one of Zeffirelli's sumptuous productions but also a film that celebrates the sacredness of artistic integrity that to Zeffirelli Callas embodied fully.
11/04/04
Top CriticYou will go away devastated and raving about the great French actress Fanny Ardant as Callas. It's a titanic performance that redefines the term 'tour de force.'
11/04/04
Top CriticUpscale auds will enjoy the film's affectionate portrait of the diva, coupled with a selection of her great recordings and Zeffirelli's dazzling, fictional stagings of Carmen.
11/04/04
Top CriticSadly, this camp drama, a eulogy by one of Callas's closest friends, pales in comparison to the four minutes of 'La Mamma Morta' in Philadelphia.
11/02/04
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