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Times Review:

A Mighty Heart

The director’s rapid-fire and choppy editing gives you a genuine feel for the many different sides of Karachi, and the urgency of the investigation. Shots of street vendors and overloaded buses are slotted between armed raids and interrogations. You can almost smell the fear on suspects. And there’s a controversial flavour about the vested, sometimes murky, interests of assorted officials. Ultimately what makes the film such an affecting modern parable is the authenticity of the emotions. Jolie’s blasts of grief when Mariane hears the dreaded news that her husband has been beheaded pricks tears and raises the hairs on your neck.

Premiere review.

“A Mighty Heart”

Given her tabloid noteriety, is it possible for Angelina Jolie to even register a performance anymore? That is, when on screen, can she make you believe that you are not looking at Angelina Jolie? That’s just one of the questions going through my mind before seeing A Mighty Heart, the much-bruited film adaptation of Mariane Pearl’s memoir starring Jolie as Pearl, co-produced by Jolie’s companion Brad Pitt, and directed by Michael Winterbottom. (Pearl was the wife of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in early 2002. Mariane, also a journalist, was five months pregnant with their son at the time.)

The answer to the question is “kind of.” Which is not to say that Jolie does not perform to the fullest of her capabilities, or that she is ineffective. But what makes her convincing here has as much to do with how she is shot as what she does.

The ever astute Winterbottom has cast the film as a procedural and an ensemble piece. Contrary to what many might have inferred from the production stills, official-and-non, that emerged during the making of the film, this is not a picture wherein a lone Mariane Pearl wanders wide-eyed through the streets of Karachi in a heroic search for her missing spouse. Mariane spends most of the time in the rented house of a friend and colleague (Archie Panjabi), surrounded by a partially ad hoc team—a Pakistani police captain, an American diplomat, a couple of Wall Street Journal staffers, etc.—trying to piece together the hows and whys of Pearl’s abduction. (Pearl himself is played very well by Dan Futterman in his likable straight-shooter mode.)

Winterbottom appears to understand that no matter how much she is made up (here she is given a darker complexion and ringletted hair to better resemble the Afro-Cuban/Dutch Pearl; she looks pretty much just like herself regardless), there is no way an audience is going to look at her onscreen and NOT see Angelina Jolie. He employs a couple of strategies to tackle this. In the initial sequences of the film, he rarely puts her in the frame all by herself; she’s always in part of some bustle, even if she’s in the foreground. He also cuts very quickly; he doesn’t give her any “moments.” Thus, he makes her just a part of what he’s weaving, much of which involves getting the viewer as deep as film possibly can get one into the feel of Karachi.

Winterbottom’s particularly good with environments, and he’s also a deft, quick storyteller, and he juggles chronology in a way that gives us a quick, empathy-generating read of Daniel and Mariane’s passionate involvement while moving the kidnap tale at almost full throttle.

Later, at moments when Mariane is most emotionally fraught, Winterbottom makes us not see Jolie by sort of not showing her to the viewer; he will shoot her from behind, or in silhouette. We don’t get a full-on, well lit face-forward shot of Mariane screaming until she’s giving birth to her and Daniel’s son Adam. And by this point of the film, it works.

As does, I should say, the rest of the picture, which is involving and moving in the mode of another war-zone Winterbottom picture, Welcome to Sarajevo. Jolie and Pitt were very smart to get a director who doesn’t do star turns to do Jolie’s star turn. I dare say she’s got at least an Oscar nomination locked.

From Empire magazine (biggest selling European film mag)

A Mighty Heart

“Going straight out to come back in, we found ourselves sitting in exactly the same seats for Michael Winterbottom’s new film, A Mighty Heart, a true-story-slash-biopic set in Pakistan and starring some American bird called Angelina Jolie.

Filmed on the hoof in India, but shot so stunningly you’d swear they’d closed down the whole country for the shoot, the film tells the story of Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal writer who was kidnapped by jihadists, on suspicion of being a CIA and Mossad operative, then viciously beheaded in the first of many militant video statements issued in the wake of 9/11. Jolie plays his widow, Mariane, but she isn’t always the focus, sometimes sliding into the background whenever Winterbottom’s film morphs into United 93-type reconstruction. Anyone who doubts her acting talent will be hard pushed to find fault with her performance here; the French accent and (controversial) dusky looks are very convincing indeed, but if there’s a fault to be found it’s perhaps that the film lacks a little in subtext. Then again, it seems churlish to say that: Winterbottom finds terrific flavour in the backstreets, and there’s a poignant sense of camaraderie to counter the cruelty. “

from lainey who is now covering the Cannes Festival in Cannes –

A Mighty Heart

They were here today for A Mighty Heart – the screening took place at 10:45am following by a photo call and then a press conference at 1pm.

About the film - very well received, with some comparing Michael Winterbottom’s direction to Michael Mann’s: tightly shot with a journalist’s eye, almost like a reality show without the fake. One of the actor’s at one point during the question period actually said Winterbottom would have followed them into the loo if they were still in character.

Those who were hoping it will suck will be very disappointed. A Might Heart does not suck. Not even close. In fact, it made me cry… because you can’t imagine the strength of this woman – what she went through, how she fought, how in spite of the murder of her husband while pregnant with his child, somehow she manages to continue to believe in humanity.

And even though this post is primarily about smut, I’d be remiss to undercredit the remarkable Mariane Pearl. She is incredibly impressive. Which is why there has been much criticism levelled at the casting: that Angelina and Mariane look nothing alike, that they are from different ethic backgrounds, that in hiring Angelina to play the role, it effectively robbed other actresses with more similar physical characteristics the opportunity.

On film, the resemblance is adequate. You still KNOW it’s Angelina Jolie but it’s not a stretch of the imagination either. More importantly, her acting and her accent do the part justice. She is different in this movie than she has been in others. You know most of the time, when Angelina Jolie delivers a line, because of the nature of her films like Tomb Raider and Mr and Mrs Smith, the delivery is always tinged with a little action hero cheese – like Bruce Willis without a *****?

Well in A Mighty Heart, her speech patterns are different, she’s less of a caricature than she is a character, and she shows more range than she ever has before, and that could explain why they are seriously considering an Oscar run. I’m not sure if I’d go that far but never underestimate the Paramount hype machine. The lips however…the lips are way to distracting. Not in person but definitely on film. Is it possible to make them smaller?

Sorry, I digress.

Mariane Pearl was front and centre during the press conference. The first questions were directed at her. And so in her charming, multilingual way, she addressed questions about her involvement and about how she wanted to tell her story. One of the first things she did therefore was to stress that she herself was the one to pick Angelina Jolie for the part. She approached her, she asked her, and she says she is thrilled with the result. Now is not a celebrity, she is a private person, so she did not give in to that voyeuristic need for all of us to see her emote on a stage when questions about her memories came up. Needless to say, seeing a film chronicling the kidnapping and subsequent death of her husband must have been unimaginably painful. And yet she stayed away from the melodrama and focused instead on the message: she wanted to do justice to Danny’s life and she was grateful for Angelina’s respect of her wishes – she actually went so far as to say something to the effect of “it meant even more because Angelina is someone that I love”. Of course at that point, Angelina almost cried.

And so you can hear that subtle but powerful underlying message, right? Mariane Pearl, who is beyond reproach, has given her stamp of approval to Angelina Jolie. So whose place is it to argue her judgement?

And still…it would unfair to end on that note. Because Mariane Pearl is amazing. She has this way of speaking, of holding herself, of treating the most haunting subject matter with such poise and such peace, it’s hard not to feel comfortable in her presence. Mariane Pearl is all class. And regardless of your feelings about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, her life story is absolutely, 100% worth sharing.

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Dispatch 5: March of the Penguins

By Dave McCoy
MSN Movies

The last time I wore a tux was five years ago … and I swore I’d never wear one again until my own wedding. See, I’m a journalist and I work for Microsoft. That combination means I dress as comfortably and shabbily as I possibly can. But when the good folks at Paramount Vantage called a few months ago and offered me a ticket to the world premiere of “A Mighty Heart,” followed by a special dinner attended by Angelina Jolie, well, forget my wedding! A chance to walk the red-carpeted steps of the Grand Theatre Lumiere and be in the same room with Jolie (and probably Brad Pitt)? Where’s the nearest tux shop?

See, when you attend a premiere in Cannes, everyone dresses to the nines. It’s mandatory: tuxedos for the boys; gorgeous, sexy, revealing dresses for the girls. Crowds begin lining up two or three hours before a premiere to get a glimpse of their favorite stars. Paparazzi cram into fenced-off pits trying to get the best shots. And as I mentioned last year, women and men, all dressed up with nowhere to go, hang about with signs, begging for a ticket (it’s like a Grateful Dead show, minus the patchouli oil and weed).

It’s a crazy, unique, wonderful thing … in theory. Right now, it’s 80 degrees in Cannes, and super muggy. It’s been that way since Day 1, and though we’ve had the threat of rain, no relief appears in sight. Eighty degrees, muggy, tux. Do the math. By the time I stepped onto the famed red carpet, I was sweating like a 500-pound man who got locked inside a sauna. It wasn’t pretty … but damn if everyone else didn’t look just as uncomfortable. It’s quite a scene, let me tell you, and I’d be lying if I didn’t admit I was worried about tripping and falling down all 20 stairs.

Once inside and seated, the audience can watch the movie screen as others enter the theater. Oh, there’s Gérard Depardieu. Oh, hey, there is … some random, stunning model who thinks she’s a star and is taking 10 minutes to walk up the steps. Hey, there’s a wrinkly old French dude who must be someone important because everyone is kissing him. Ah, OK, here we go … Angelina and Brad. People went nuts. The pair looked incredible (painfully so … I mean, it’s unnatural) and now I’ll play the role of fashion critic: Brad was stunning in his black tuxedo, hair cut short and styled like Cary Grant. Angelina, hair pulled back, looked statuesque in a black dress made by some designer for some ridiculous price that could feed the entire population of a Third-World country. Sorry, best I can do for you, folks. Ain’t my bag.

When they finally made their way into the theater, they received a heroes’ welcome from the thousands that packed it (by this point, I had lost 27 pounds and was swimming in my rented, shiny shoes). There was someone else there too … who was it? Oh, right. Mariane Pearl and her son, Adam. They are the subjects of “A Mighty Heart” (you thought I’d forgot about the movie, didn’t you?) and when I saw them, I suddenly realized how yucky this whole fashion parade was.

You all know the story of Wall Street Journal scribe Daniel Pearl. Of how, in January 2002, he was kidnapped while following a lead in Karachi, and how several weeks later, he was beheaded, setting off a string of post-Sept. 11 journalist deaths (230 and rising) in the Middle East region. “A Mighty Heart” is based of Mariane Pearl’s memoir, which details those weeks she spent trying to find her husband and the chaos of the region. It’s a stirring work dedicated to Adam to show him the kind of man his father was, because they would never meet.

Although I agree celebration is in order for getting this story on the big screen, against the context of premiere night in Cannes and the celebrity obsession … I don’t know. It just felt wrong.

But to the movie. It’s made by Michael Winterbottom, who’s crafted films in nearly every genre (”The Claim,” “Jude,” “24 Hour Party People,” “Tristram Shandy: A **** and Bull Story”) and has taken on political subject matter several times (though I’d argue poorly and in a heavy-handed manner) with “The Road to Guantanamo” and “Welcome to Sarajevo.” “A Mighty Heart” is far better than those last two films, though not without its own serious flaws.

The entire film covers the weeks between the kidnapping of Pearl (played mostly in flashback by Dan Futterman) until his eventual death — a technique that is always tricky. How do you keep an audience engaged in a story to which they know the ending, especially one as tragic and brutal as this? Winterbottom pulls it off by creating a dizzying, confusing, fast-paced mystery, mostly without sentimentality, that reveals layers and layers of international deceit and deception. And most importantly, he has Jolie. In easily her finest performance, Jolie the pop-culture figure loses herself inside the role of Pearl. Mariane is of Cuban and French descent, and when you put the two women side by side, you’d never think Jolie could pull it off. But she does. Her hair is curly, complexion changed and she’s pregnant the entire film. While the world spins out of control around her, Pearl (and Jolie) remains centered and the film becomes as much about a wife’s love for her husband as the evil surrounding them. But it’s also here that Winterbottom and screenwriter John Orloff make their biggest mistake: As the film moves forward, Mariane Pearl becomes more a saint than human. She is allowed no flaws in the film to the point where it threatens the validity of the circumstances (a final speech she gives, postmurder, to a group that helped try to find Daniel is the type of stuff Oscar voters may love but is unnecessary and slightly embarrassing).

That said, the film is still quite effective and moving and infuriating. And the sold-out audience loved it. Pearl and Jolie received a standing ovation that lasted well past five minutes. They both deserve it in their own ways.

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Thanks for the link to the interview- twas very moving, anyone who has lost someone close will undertand those feelings. Yet for all she has been through I love how Angelina references and steers the conversation back to Mariannes story. I don’t care for the interviewers style but to be fair that’s just a petty personal gripe. I’m delighted the film has got such good revues, I’m so looking forward to seeing it.

it seems like everyone in the OCEANS 13 cast were at the AMFAR benefit tonight, EXCEPT BP.

i love MSN review by dave mccoy, that seem like an unbiased opinion, and i agree jolie and marianne deserve all the praise they’re receiving.