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In the 1950s, the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis — soon to be familiar on American shores as the second husband of Jacqueline Kennedy — supposedly declared that Long Beach was “the world’s most modern shipping port.”

“Maria,” now on Netflix, is a dramatization of how Callas might have lived her final days in 1977, ambling through Paris and reflecting on her past: a troubled childhood; a tempestuous affair with Aristotle Onassis; and a career of artistic triumphs tempered by her enigmatic decision to walk away from all of it.

A year later, Onassis died, which it is said to have caused Callas to lose interest in life.

In typical flashback fashion, we witness her decline and delusions as she tries to recapture her voice, the attentions of Aristotle Onassis and the adoration of the public.

Yet her need to become more of the woman she wanted to be drove her obsession with the ultimately toxic Onassis.