Past screening

The Genius and the Opera Singer

Directed by: Vanessa Stockley
Runtime: 1hr 7min Year: 2017

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Directed by: Vanessa Stockley
Runtime: 1hr 7min Year: 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Last Screened: Tue 1st Oct 2019

An unsettling portrait of a mother-daughter relationship - a 92-year-old former opera singer and her volatile daughter who have inhabited a rent-controlled Manhattan penthouse for the last fifty-five years - along with their obese chihuahua, Angelina Jolie.

An unsettling portrait of a mother-daughter relationship, The Genius and the Opera Singer explores their intense emotional states and the knotted riddle of their past.