Brad Pitt Resumes Daddy Duties

Uh-oh…look at that expression on Miss Z’s face. Someone didn’t get their way and is not happy about it…

Odd that the actress is still close to her former in-laws? No way, says Pitt’s brother Doug. “Jennifer is a friend of Brad’s,” he tells PEOPLE in its new issue. “Why wouldn’t she be a friend of ours?”

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TOLD YOU!

A Mighty Heart
by Ed Gonzalez
Posted: June 7, 2007

ad Michael Winterbottom movies are not uncommon, but none have been as useless as A Mighty Heart. The film’s only achievement may be what Premiere’s Glenn Kenny acknowledges as the director’s understanding that audiences are no longer able to look at Angelina Jolie onscreen without seeing Angelina Jolie. Winterbottom recognizes the actress’s iconicity as a force that must be reckoned with—which is to say, disguised. Except the tricks he employs to help the actress disappear into the film’s tapestry of uncertainty aren’t exactly new and reek of evasiveness. You could say they’re as transparent as this painstaking chronicle of a police investigation is gutless.

Asking no questions, giving no insights, and demanding nothing of his audience, Winterbottom dramatizes the last days in the life of Daniel Pearl in his typically cold, hyperventilating fashion: cinematography that looks like the walls of the Lincoln Tunnel, shots that don’t last more than five seconds, and lazy cultural specificity. His faux sense of urgency attempts to keep the blood pumping, except all it does is camouflage this historical recreation’s almost disturbing lack of resonance. Getting at nothing about Daniel’s wife Mariane (Jolie) as a woman or a journalist, or the ethical conundrum of Americans living in foreign lands, Winterbottom settles for a cliché portrait of a wife waiting for her husband to come home. The only reason, then, to watch this dull drama is for Jolie, who smothers her star power with a well-researched accent and impressive sea of tics until the script demands her to let out a string of primal screams (for your award consideration, it’s the only scene that runs longer than it should).

Though timid next to The Road to Guantanamo, A Mighty Heart still allows Winterbottom to push surprisingly passive-aggressive points of view that fail to seriously broach issues of American political guilt on the world stage. He doesn’t address the danger of Mariane and Daniel’s presence in Pakistan, but he acknowledges her Cuban heritage (cut to a news report about prisoner abuses at Guantanamo Bay!), then Daniel’s Jewishness—suggesting the Pearls were an embodiment of everything terrorists in the region stand against. Winterbottom’s simple politics complement his simple filmmaking. Later, when the Pakistani police captain played by Irrfan Khan physically susses out Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh’s name from a suspected liaison, Winterbottom doesn’t call for the same righteous disapproval he demanded with Road to Guantanamo’s torture sequences.

Scenes of American agents and Pakistani police in Karachi hunting down Daniel’s kidnappers are intercut with snippets of Mariane waiting inside the home of one of her husband’s colleagues, Asra (Archie Panjabi). While Mariane experiences all types of police procedure, from the compassionate to the amusingly hardnosed, audiences are subjected to trivial flashbacks to Mariane and Daniel’s wedded bliss and an ungodly number of cutaways to a cute child roaming around Asra’s abode and a housekeeper wiping a different stretch of floor tile. Winterbottom’s unintentional accomplishment may be wearing audiences down with the banal clockwork of his recreation as the real Mariane was by the media circus around her friend’s house.

Too much publicity is not good people

21 Dragonfly | 06/20/2007 at 8:57 am
Never doubted for a minute this would be the next place they would pop up!

I see it’s back to school as the J-P’s resume family life.

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Though I love the red carpet pictures I have to admit these type of pictures, I love most. Because you realize like Angie said the red carpet the interviews is her job and she is greatful for it but her family (Brad and the Kids) this is what is most important to her to the both of them, this is what brings them joy. As Brad said it is what is most natuaral and you get a sense of that in the photos.

Jane Pitt f*cked up your days. She visited Jennifer, you got sh*ty.

She puts up with Angelina because her son is with her now and she is the mother of her granddaughter Shiloh.

She prefers Jennifer but Brad left her for Angelina, in life sh*t happens……..

She visited Jennifer in front of all the world to show she prefers still Jennifer even after 2,5 years.

As we can see the trolls are trying to hijack this thread……IGNORE them!

48 people
The operative word is “friend”. Can’t we all just get along. Thanks for the pictures Just Jared. Zahara is my kind of girl. Peace to all.

Odd that the actress is still close to her former in-laws? No way, says Pitt’s brother Doug. “Jennifer is a friend of Brad’s,” he tells PEOPLE in its new issue. “Why wouldn’t she be a friend of ours?”

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Brad’s family never defend angelina on record yet first his mom and now his brother run to talk to people to clear how they are still close to jen.

Poor angie

Jennifer Aniston’s Visit from Brad Pitt’s Mom

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt split more than two years ago – but that wasn’t the end of Aniston’s relationship with Pitt’s parents.

In fact, on Sunday – Father’s Day – Pitt’s Springfield, Mo.-based mother, Jane, dropped by Aniston’s Malibu home for a quick chat.

Odd that the actress is still close to her former in-laws? No way, says Pitt’s brother Doug. “Jennifer is a friend of Brad’s,” he tells PEOPLE in its new issue. “Why wouldn’t she be a friend of ours?”

This certainly wasn’t the first time Aniston has connected with her ex’s family – Jane and Pitt’s sister Julie visited her in Chicago in 2005 while she was filming The Break-Up with future boyfriend Vince Vaughn, and Aniston told Vanity Fair she and Jane keep in regular touch.

But Aniston is hardly pining for her ex – just days before Jane’s visit, she had another VIP guest: her new beau, British model Paul Sculfor, who stopped by on June 15.

why can Angie be close to all her EX’s and talk about them, but not on Brad’s side?
Why the double standard?

917 IWitness | 06/20/2007 at 8:44 am
It was not planned. Someone called Jen told her Jane was in the ‘Bu-Jen called Jane-begged her to stop by-Steve called Jill-Jill sent photog-Jane saw photog-Understood set up-Jane was hotly pissed-Jen knows Jane won’t out her-Jane went in-called Brad-Brad said wait til photogs leave-they didn’t-Jane used bathroom-Jane read Jen her rights-Jane left!

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So it looks like the Pitts are too classy and nice to out Jen on her manipulating ways, so they gave a neutral statement to People Magazine.

Odd that the actress is still close to her former in-laws? No way, says Pitt’s brother Doug. “Jennifer is a friend of Brad’s,” he tells PEOPLE in its new issue. “Why wouldn’t she be a friend of ours?”
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Did he just say that jen and jane are not close but they are just friends?