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Speaker 1: Great per flick with Benoshe.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Ben, Good morning guys.

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Speaker 1: Now this is a story I'm looking forward to seeing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So this is the story of the opera singer

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Speaker 3: Maria Kallas, who was so famous that they called her

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Speaker 3: La Callas. So you know, when they call you the

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Speaker 3: and then your last name, you're a pretty big deal.

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Speaker 2: And she certainly was.

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Speaker 3: She was a pop culture icon, you know, like you're

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Speaker 3: talking about, you know, maybe not quite Beatles level, but

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Speaker 3: certainly she would rock up at an opera house and

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Speaker 3: there would be paparazzi, there would be hordes of fans

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Speaker 3: waiting to catch a glimpse of Maria Kallas. And she

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Speaker 3: was famous also for her you know, sort of a

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Speaker 3: private life as well, her decades long dalliance with Aristotle

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Speaker 3: on Nassas, who put the O in Jackie O and

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Speaker 3: the O. And he was a you know, a Greek

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Speaker 3: shipping magnate. Aristotle Onassis broke Maria Callis's heart. Then she

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Speaker 3: can't kind of like lost her voice tragically and then

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Speaker 3: lived as a recluse for many years in Paris up

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Speaker 3: until her death. And this film sort of tells the

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Speaker 3: story of her final few days where she's thinking about

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Speaker 3: maybe trying to make a comeback, and she's taking these

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Speaker 3: sort of powerful hallucinogenic sedatives and just wandering around Paris

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Speaker 3: and kind of reliving her life, I guess. And it

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Speaker 3: stars Angelina Jolie, who's perfectly cast as Maria Callas. It's

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Speaker 3: hard to imagine anybody really doing as sort of a

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Speaker 3: grand opera diver better than Jolie. I feel a bit

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Speaker 3: for Ange. She got overlooked for the Oscars. The whole

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Speaker 3: film really got snubbed apart from Best Cinematography. And it's

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Speaker 3: from director Pablo Lorraine, who's a director from Chile who's

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Speaker 3: really an expert in making these type of movies. This

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Speaker 3: is the third of his trilogy of films about twentieth

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Speaker 3: century iconic women. He had Jackie starring Natalie Portman, that

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Speaker 3: got Natalie Portman and Oscar nomination. He did Spence a

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Speaker 3: couple of years ago about Princess Die starring Kristen Stewart.

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Speaker 2: That was awful. Yeah, that wasn't for everybody. I bet

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Speaker 2: that wasn't for everybody. Christin Stewart got an Oscar nomination.

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Speaker 1: She didn't say I know why she got an Oscar nomination, but.

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Speaker 3: She did, and so I think, and going into this

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Speaker 3: would have thought, you know what, this guy knows how

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Speaker 3: to get his leading ladies some oscar attention didn't happen, which.

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Speaker 1: Is the iron She's the one that probably should have gone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a bit unfortunate.

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Speaker 3: She learned how to sing opera and look, ninety ninety

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Speaker 3: five percent of the film is actually the real Maria

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Speaker 3: Callis is singing because no one's going to sing like she.

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Speaker 3: She's not just an opera singer one of the best

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Speaker 3: of all time. But and towards the end of the

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Speaker 3: film where she's singing and she can't sing anymore, that's

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Speaker 3: actually a singers. So when you can't, when the audience

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Speaker 3: is supposed to feel sad about how much her voice

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Speaker 3: has declined, that's and singing. And look, she does very

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Speaker 3: well though, like you listen to it and you go,

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Speaker 3: that's pretty bloody good. But the actual and one of

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Speaker 3: the unfortunate downsides of the film is, you know, an

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Speaker 3: actual opera singer. You see this if you see one

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Speaker 3: up close, you see the strain that it has on

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Speaker 3: their muscles and their windpipe and you can see it

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Speaker 3: kind of bulging in their throat and so it's very

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Speaker 3: hard to mime that. And so when when when Angelina

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Speaker 3: Jolie is miming some of these big arias in the flashbacks,

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Speaker 3: you can see that she's not singing, but we're in

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Speaker 3: the in the kind of final stages of the movie

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Speaker 3: where she is actually singing. That's some of the most

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Speaker 3: powerful moments. And and she does a good job. I

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Speaker 3: think she does a pretty good job. It's really a

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Speaker 3: one woman show this movie. There's some nice supporting performances

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Speaker 3: from the two actors that play her house staff, because

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Speaker 3: she really lives alone in this chateau in Paris with

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Speaker 3: her butler, who's played by the great Pierre Francesco, who

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Speaker 3: has been in a bunch of Italian films and plays

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Speaker 3: the Ferruccio, her butler, who actually interviews with the real

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Speaker 3: life Ferruccio helped kind of come up with the script

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Speaker 3: of this film. And Australia's own Cody Smith McPhee in

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Speaker 3: the film. Yeah, unfortunately, his character is to be honest,

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Speaker 3: recause it's not that he's not good, he's fine. But

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Speaker 3: her character is called Mandrex, which is the name of

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Speaker 3: the hallucinogenic drug that she was taking, so he's probably

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Speaker 3: not actually really there the whole time, and so it's

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Speaker 3: just unnecessary, you know, it's just an unnecessary kind of

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Speaker 3: little affectation. And he's playing this journalist who's interviewing her,

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Speaker 3: and so that's kind of the device the director uses

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Speaker 3: to get her to kind of have the inner monologue

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Speaker 3: on the outside. And but yeah, but the cinematography that

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Speaker 3: was Oscar nominated is by the bloke who did. If

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Speaker 3: you've seen The Virgin Suicides by Sophia Coppola or Todd

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Speaker 3: Haynes's Carroll, two stunningly gorgeous films, you get a good

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Speaker 3: idea of what this film looks like.

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Speaker 2: It's beautiful to watch. It is luscious.

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Speaker 3: The streets of Paris. It seems like every single shot

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Speaker 3: was shot at either at sunrise or sunset.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Does it delve a lot into just how much Onnassas

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Speaker 1: broke her?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like I think it really does. You know, he

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Speaker 3: she kind of fell for him. He was this, you know,

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Speaker 3: this cocky Greek shipping magnate who was you know, punching

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Speaker 3: well above his weight, even trying to have a crack

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Speaker 3: at Maria Callis and but you know, he wooed her

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Speaker 3: with his extreme wealth and then just kind of really

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Speaker 3: left her for Jackie. Oh, Jackie Kenny.

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Speaker 1: Is it true that she continued to have an affair

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Speaker 1: with him? But yeah, so he yeah.

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Speaker 3: Ye And the kind of film, the kind of film

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Speaker 3: suggests that maybe Aristotle on Nassas got it on with

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Speaker 3: Jackie Kennedy while she was still married to JFK, which

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Speaker 3: is and there's a little a little scene where JFK

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Speaker 3: is kind of interacting with Maria Kallis, which is really

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Speaker 3: fascinating as well.

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Speaker 2: It's not a JK. Yes, he did extra curricular exactly. Well,

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Speaker 2: they have they mentioned that as well.

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Speaker 3: I think that show there it was they show Maria

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Speaker 3: Callas at that famous famous JFK birthday event where Marilyn Monroe.

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Speaker 2: Pleasant and Aristotle and ass is.

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Speaker 3: Saying to Maria Callis, you know, like talking about Marilyn

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Speaker 3: up on stage, and Maria says to Aristotle and Asses,

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Speaker 3: it's amazing, you know, you know, everyone only cares about

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Speaker 3: her body, no one cares about her voice, and he

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Speaker 3: says to her, well, Maria, you're the opposite. Everyone cares

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Speaker 3: about your voice and no one cares about your body

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Speaker 3: than it was a line.

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Speaker 1: So it was good words. How many note over Tilly

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Speaker 1: in this case, skinny lady.

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Speaker 3: Sings is a very skinny lady in this case. You

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Speaker 3: know it's not perfect, but I think Angela Jolly is

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Speaker 3: so good and it looks so beautiful.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to give this one three and a half. Okay,

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Speaker 2: very good.

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Speaker 1: Does any is there any sort of like does she?

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Speaker 1: Is she just Angelina Jolly sized?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not bulking up. She didn't bulk up for

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Speaker 2: this one. Okay. Lots of flashback, yeah, lots of flash

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Speaker 2: Very good, very good, Thanks guys,