Saturday Night and 3 Other Best New Biopics to Watch if You Liked A Complete Unknown
Sometimes life creates stories that are more exciting than any movie.
Artists, singers and poets – each deserves their own biopic. Angelina Jolie becomes Maria Callas, and Timothée Chalamet sings in front of millions. We have rounded up the latest biopics that deserve your attention.
1. Maria, 2024
The film Maria by the renowned Chilean master Pablo Larraín tells the story of one of the greatest opera singers of the 20th century, Maria Callas. The events of the movie take place in September 1977, literally a few days before the death of the woman.
Callas lives in a Paris apartment with two poodles, a compassionate cook and a caring butler. She recalls the best years of her career, gives an interview to a young journalist who is writing a portrait of her, and even prepares for her last concert.
After Jackie and Spencer, Maria completes Larraín's trilogy of historical portraits of strong and influential women.
2. Saturday Night, 2024
It is hard to overstate the importance of Saturday Night Live to pop culture. Over its 50-year history, the show has produced many talented comedians, nearly all of Hollywood's stars, and simply talented writers from all walks of life who have appeared on SNL in some capacity.
But few people know how it all began. The movie Saturday Night tells this story.
The events of Jason Reitman's work unfold in real time – we find ourselves in the studio on October 11, 1975, when there are literally 100 minutes left before the first episode of The Saturday Night Live.
3. Joy, 2024
In 1968, a young midwife and nurse, Jean, gets a job at Cambridge University in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Edwards, who is working to improve women's fertility.
She is joined by Patrick Steptoe, an innovative surgeon. Together, the three are one step away from a revolutionary medical discovery – the invention of in vitro fertilization.
Joy is based on real events and tells the story of how the first child in history was conceived through IVF. Importantly, the story in Ben Taylor's film is told from the perspective of nurse Jean Purdy, whose involvement in the development of a new method was long ignored by the medical community.
4. Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness, 2024
A talented artist, a womanizer, and a loser – all in one person – Amedeo Modigliani. He wanders through restaurants and galleries, trying his best to win the approval of critics who still do not see the potential in Modi's work.
And now, on the verge of despair, the artist learns that a prominent art collector will be arriving in the city any day now. For Modi, this is his last chance to make himself known to the world.
Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness is Johnny Depp's new directorial work. It seems that Depp has been tormented by only one fear for many years – the fear of oblivion.