Being Maria (2024)

Name: Being Maria
Director: Jessica Palud
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 2024-06-19
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Cast: Anamaria Vartolomei, Céleste Brunnquell, Matt Dillon, Marie Gillain

History Drama

Director: Jessica Palud

Cast: Anamaria Vartolomei, Céleste Brunnquell, Matt Dillon, Marie Gillain

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Runtime100 min

RatingR 18+

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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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Being Maria, directed by the talented Jessica Palud and released in 2024, offers a captivating exploration of the challenges facing a young actress as she navigates her big breakthrough role. With a stellar cast including Anamaria Vartolomei, Céleste Brunnquell, and Matt Dillon, this film blends historical drama and psychological intensity, providing a unique and thought-provoking viewing experience for fans of character-driven stories.

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Being Maria is a 2024 French biographical drama film directed by Jessica Palud from a screenplay by Palud and Laurette Polmanss, freely adapted from Vanessa Schneider's 2018 memoir My Cousin Maria Schneider. It is about the actress Maria Schneider (1952–2011) and dramatizes her experiences working on Bernardo Bertolucci's feature film Last Tango in Paris (1972). It stars Anamaria Vartolomei in the title role, with Céleste Brunnquell, Giuseppe Maggio, Yvan Attal, Marie Gillain, Jonathan Couzinié and Matt Dillon in supporting roles.