I didn’t need to see Maria, the movie starring Angelina Jolie about the last week of Maria Callas’s life to know that it would feature a woman disintegrating as she remembers past triumphs and disasters.

Few actors are so undeniably made to be stars as Angelina Jolie. A legendary beauty whose public image has shifted from wild child nepotism baby drinking vials of blood to glamorous bombshell to a mother figure and human rights activist,