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Being Maria
Directed by
Jessica Palud
NR
2024
1h 40m
Biography
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Drama
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and more
6.1
60%
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A young, struggling actress lands her dream role in a film by an emerging Italian director, starring alongside an American superstar. What begins as her big breakthrough quickly turns into a living hell.
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Cast of Being Maria
Anamaria Vartolomei
Maria Schneider
Céleste Brunnquell
Noor
Matt Dillon
Marlon Brando
Marie Gillain
Marie-Christine
Yvan Attal
Daniel Gélin
Stanislas Merhar
L'agent
Jérémy Charvet
Pointeur
Giuseppe Maggio
Bernardo Bertolucci
Alexis Corso
Nathan
Alexandre Ionescu
Louis ingé son
Swann Dupont
La scripte
Patrice Tépasso
Vittorio Storaro
Aurélie Garault
Maquilleuse de Daniel Gélin
Jessica Palud
Director / Writer
Laurette Polmanss
Writer
Vanessa Schneider
Writer
Stéphanie Doncker
Producer
Marielle Duigou
Producer
Alex C. Lo
Producer
Being Maria Ratings & Reviews
What She Said
Anne Brodie
For all the sturm und drang, betrayal and abuse, the film seems bloodless and slow, but left a strong impression of diastase for the perps and empathy for those victimised in their naivete.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
there's enough of an emotional intelligence inside the bumpier elements of "Being Maria" that the movie effectively acknowledges that it's only one part of a complicated life story.
Denerstein Unleashed
Robert Denerstein
...[Being Maria is] a film that can't help but lose steam when it's most intriguing chapter passes, leaving only bad vibes in its wake.
Aisle Seat
Mike McGranaghan
Being Maria is a raw, unflinching exploration of how women have traditionally been treated as objects within the entertainment industry.
InSession Film
Will Bjarnar
Another film could have lent just a touch more focus to the fleeting instances of euphoria shared between lovers, a sometimes necessary reprieve from perpetual agony. Then again, if my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bike.
New York Times
Beatrice Loayza
If the meandering nature of the film makes the psychic fallout seem tonally scattered, it nevertheless conveys the sense that she's sleepwalking through life - and always fighting to snap out of it.
NPR
Bob Mondello
Palud, who previously worked with Bertolucci, does her most evocative work in the on-set sequences, with a coddled Brando (a terrific Matt Dillon) and an increasingly vulnerable Schneider.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
The film is buoyed by Vartolomei's constant pursuit of the truth, and by the intensity with which Maria is always searching to see herself reflected in the eyes of those looking at her -- our eyes very much included.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
In depicting what made its subject stand out, this earnest biopic of talented yet troubled French actress Maria Schneider winds up conventional as it probes her life and career through a contemporary feminist lens.
RogerEbert.com
Sheila O'Malley
"Being Maria" vibrates with sympathy and loss.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
[T]his story should be told with more honesty, nuance, and actual recognition of its main character's personal and professional accomplishments.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
As a creative work, it's mild, but it's audacious nonetheless, and its audacity lies in its very existence.
The Film Stage
Alistair Ryder
It's fascinated by the traumatic situation its protagonist found herself in while making the career it preceded a footnote, unable to articulate the way it shaped her growth as an artist beyond a reductive downward-spiral narrative.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
There's only a surface appreciation of familial and professional challenges in "Being Maria," but Palud finds ways to connect the dots of disappointment.
Gay City News
Steve Erickson
It's unfortunate that "Being Maria" can't find a more imaginative way to depict Schneider's life than an arc of trauma, tragedy, and return.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
A mildly engaging and well-acted, but somewhat shallow biopic.
Next Best Picture
Max Borg
Still, while Anamaria Vartolomei brings her customary pained intensity to the role of Schneider, her male co-stars appear to be misdirected throughout
Variety
Alissa Simon
Despite a clunky air of earnestness and some soap opera-like scenes, plus the overly familiar arc of a celebrity spiraling out of control, the film resonates because the central topic is so of the moment.
The Hollywood Reporter
Jordan Mintzer
Like the actress herself, whose life and career exploded with Last Tango's success while unraveling at the same time, the movie loses its way after the scandal surrounding Bertolucci's film fizzles out.
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Pete Hammond
[Fits] squarely in the Lifetime TV Movie of the Week formula... Fortunately, it is all lifted tremendously by its talented and intriguing star, Vartolomei, who is utterly convincing in the role of Maria without turning it into a beat-for-beat impression.
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