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Angelina Jolie cuts a chic figure in a beige trench coat as she leaves the Venice Film Festival just hours after receiving an eight-minute standing ovation for Maria Callas biopic


The actress, 49, has received critical praise for her performance in Pablo Larraín film, but opted against staying in the city for any further events as she prepared to leave Italy on Friday.

Maria battled ill health during her final years, and the film shines a light on her deteriorating mental state as she dreams of the prospect of performing once again, with her marriage to Ari Onassis at the forefront. Variety's Owen Gleiberman wrote that Angelina 'seizes our attention, playing Maria as woman of wiles who is imperious, mysterious, fusing the life force of a genius diva with the downbeat emotional fire of a femme fatale. '[Angelina] seizes our attention, playing Maria as woman of wiles who is imperious, mysterious, fusing the life force of a genius diva with the downbeat emotional fire of a femme fatale.

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