Being Maria

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Being Maria

2024,

1h 42m,

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History

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Maria is a young, struggling actress with promise. When an emerging Italian director casts her to headline a new film alongside an American superstar, her dreams are coming true. But what seems like a big breakthrough turns out to be the start of a living hell. That movie is THE LAST TANGO IN PARIS. The actress is Maria Schneider.

Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

Mar 31, 2025

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.

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Beatrice Loayza

New York Times

Mar 25, 2025

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.

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Bob Mondello

NPR

Mar 22, 2025

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.

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Anne Brodie

What She Said

May 23, 2025

2/2

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.

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Sean Burns

North Shore Movies

May 22, 2025

Wht's ironic is that by refusing to see Schneider as an artist, the movie is guilty of some of the same sins as the director it tries to demonize.

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Simon Foster

Screen-Space (Substack)

May 22, 2025

4/5

With the luminous Anamaria Vartolomei embodying the fierce spirit of the damaged but determined Schneider, BEING MARIA honours and unravels an ahead-of-her-moment icon that suffered through and overcame systemic exploitation and trauma-stifling addiction.

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Maria is a young, struggling actress with promise. When an emerging Italian director casts her to headline a new film alongside an American superstar, her dreams are coming true. But what seems like a big breakthrough turns out to be the start of a living hell. That movie is THE LAST TANGO IN PARIS. The actress is Maria Schneider.

Director: Jessica Palud
Producer: Marielle Duigou
Screenwriter: Jessica Palud, Laurette Polmanss
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Original Language: French
Runtime: 1h 42m

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