Being Maria

Name: Being Maria
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: March 21, 2025
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 59

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: March 21, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: Maria Schneider (Anamaria Vartolomei) is a promising, young French actress. When she gets the lead in a feature film directed by an acclaimed Italian filmmaker and starring one of America’s most beloved actors, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Her collaborators, director Bernardo Bertolucci and star Marlon Brando (Matt Dillon)Maria Schneider (Anamaria Vartolomei) is a promising, young French actress. When she gets the lead in a feature film directed by an acclaimed Italian filmmaker and starring one of America’s most beloved actors, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Her collaborators, director Bernardo Bertolucci and star Marlon Brando (Matt Dillon) seem to be bringing out the best in Maria, sharing a warm rapport and mentorship with the 19-year old girl. Until one day, when the two men conspire to shoot a crucial sex scene as a harrowing assault without letting Maria in on the plan. The film goes on to be lauded as a fearless artistic breakthrough, but for Maria, it’s the beginning of a living hell. Based on the behind-the-scenes true story of the making of Last Tango in Paris, Jessica Palud’s sensitive biopic centers Maria’s story for the first time.… Expand

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 102 min

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IndieWire David Ehrlich

Mar 21, 2025

Even as Benjamin Biolay’s dolorous string score threatens to flatten “Being Maria” into a more traditional rise and fall story, 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. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 18, 2025

Being Maria is a film that tries and mostly succeeds in immersing us in the experience of the French actress Maria Schneider, cast and almost certainly abused and exploited in a movie that would both make her name, and ruin it, to say nothing of the psychological damage it probably left her with. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Mar 21, 2025

Maria Schneider’s story is a tragic and often infuriating one, and “Being Maria” captures the complexity of the situation. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Mar 5, 2025

Vartolomei is a compelling actress and the camera truly loves her, but there’s only so much she can do with a script that doesn’t have much of a second or third act. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Mar 28, 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. Read full review

Richard Brody

Mar 20, 2025

As a creative work, it’s mild, but it’s audacious nonetheless, and its audacity lies in its very existence—its dramatization of the making of one of the most famous (and, now, infamous) movies of all time, its portrayal of two of the greatest actors of all time, and its reconstruction of the scene of a moral crime and the crime’s agonizing aftermath. Read full review

The Telegraph Robbie Collin

Mar 5, 2025

The long-term consequences are depressing, but also low on dramatic tension and life. Read full review

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