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Angelina Jolie truly a ‘Heart’ stopper
By Bruce Newman, MEDIANEWS STAFF
Article Last Updated: 06/22/2007 04:07:28 AM PDT

THE subtitle of Mariane Pearl’s memoir about the kidnapping and murder of her husband — “The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl” — would surely come as a surprise to anyone who sees only the film adaptation of her book, “A Mighty Heart,” in which Angelina Jolie plays Mariane.
Such is the force of Jolie’s performance, and the blinding effect of Hollywood star power, that the mighty heart of the story has been transformed from his to hers.

Jolie wears Mariane’s determination, her fierce French indignation and her cool calculation on the sleeve of her hijab, in full view of a houseful of Pakistani policemen who show up soon after her husband disappears.

Daniel Pearl, then the Wall Street Journal’s South Asia bureau chief, had come to Karachi to pursue a story about shoe bomber Richard Reid, who had been arrested a month earlier for trying to blow up a passenger jet.

Pearl (played by Dan Futterman) is following a lead from a shadowy informant named Bashir (Alyy Khan) when he goes missing. Like many foreign correspondents, Pearl works the frontier between outrageous risk and reward, so when Mariane — who is herself a seasoned reporter — sets out to find him, she is told by people who don’t appear to mean a word they’re saying that he will be fine.

Most of “A Mighty Heart” is taken up with Mariane’s struggle to keep her husband alive, and for nearly two hours Jolie does this with a performance at once as subtle and ferocious

as any in recent memory. With the year now half-over, can it possibly be too early to unblushingly nominate her for an Oscar?
Director Michael Winterbottom has given his film the look and sense of urgency of a documentary. This undoubtedly isn’t as easy as Winterbottom makes it seem, because Danny Pearl’s disappearance was followed by five agonizing weeks of waiting. Shooting in what often appears to be available light, and with a hand-held camera that he has tamed sufficiently to prevent motion sickness, Winterbottom keeps the picture moving along like a thriller.

He also manages to maintain a degree of suspense about Pearl’s fate, even though the story made headlines around the world in 2002. Daniel Pearl’s abduction and brutal execution by terrorists marked a turning point in the global drama that was set in motion on Sept. 11, 2001. Mariane Pearl had become pregnant at almost the same time the terrorists struck on 9/11 and was great with child when her husband vanished six months later.

Through Jolie, she maintains a steely equanimity during the crisis. Following an interview on CNN in which she talks without obvious emotion about her missing husband, someone observes how well she has “held herself together,” a remark which has about it a faint whiff of disapproval: A more obviously loving wife might have cried.

The investigation is conducted by a newly-formed Pakistani counter-terrorism unit, led by a taciturn cop called Captain (Indian star Irrfan Khan). When Mariane later approaches the American embassy for help, it appears for a time that the Pakistanis may be shown up as bumblers. One government official declines to assist in the search because he believes the kidnapping is a plot by India’s intelligence agency to embarrass Pakistan.

The film uses actual news footage from the event sparingly, and only in ways that not only heighten the feeling that these terrible events did happen but that they are happening again, right before our eyes.

When the kidnappers send word that Danny Pearl’s treatment will be no better than the terrorist prisoners at Guantanamo Bay — America’s own Devil’s Island — then-Secretary of State Colin Powell is shown insisting that the detainees at Gitmo are being treated humanely. (Just this month, Powell seemed to have reversed field and said that the prison should be closed immediately.)

Winterbottom does a wonderful job of showing the tumult and teem of the Karachi streets, the density of the chaos that any investigator would have to peer through to find the missing American. Like the team that is chasing Danny Pearl, we get only glimpses of him, bound and with a gun to his head. Writer John Orloff uses brief flashbacks of Danny and Mariane to give us some sense of who he was. But as “A Mighty Heart” continues pulsating in real time, Danny begins to feel like a construct more than a person, remaining as elusive on screen as he does in captivity.

This is Mariane’s story, and no matter how hard she tries to hold him close, she can feel her husband slipping away. When Mariane reveals to the Captain that Danny is Jewish, you can see his shoulders slump slightly and her spine stiffen. The almost imperceptible exchange passes in an instant, but Jolie and Khan manage to make it say everything about Danny’s chances.

Jolie’s work as an actress has often been a captive of her celebrity, making it difficult to see past her pillowy lips to the craft. Perhaps it took the constraints of docudrama to uncage her less obvious gifts, but this is her finest performance, and likely to be the equal of any given by an actress this year. She holds herself back for as long as she must, and then in one great howl of grief and rage, lets us into Mariane’s broken heart. Her mighty heart.

Reach Bruce Newman at (408) 920-5004.

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REVIEW

‘HEART’ in the right place
Angelina Jolie masters the part of a pregnant wife facing the unthinkable

By Michael Phillips
Tribune movie critic
Published June 22, 2007

‘A MIGHTY HEART’ ***

We know how “A Mighty Heart” ends. Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal’s South Asia bureau chief, died at the hands of his captors in early 2002, in Karachi, Pakistan. His wife, Mariane Pearl, survived him and later gave birth to their son, Adam.

We know this. Even so, when Angelina Jolie, who plays Mariane in director Michael Winterbottom’s lean and swift account, unleashes her anguish upon learning the news of Danny Pearl’s beheading, the impact is torrential, and Winterbottom’s documentary-style approach pays off. The film isn’t much interested in the usual biopic peaks and valleys, or in hyping the punishing limbo of Mariane’s life in the weeks after the kidnapping, and before confirmation of her husband’s death. But when Jolie cracks open this key moment, it’s really something.

Here’s how Pearl herself (writing with Sarah Crichton in her memoir “A Mighty Heart”) describes that cry of anguish: “I slam the door, and with all my might, I cry out. I have never screamed like this before. I can feel that I’m screaming, but the sound that rips up out of me is alien, as if everything is coming out of me. I sound like an animal caught in a bone-crushing trap.”

Up until this moment, which is handled just right in the film, Jolie’s Mariane has been like a tuning fork, emitting a hum of worry and contained rage. When the news hits her, the resulting emotions are enormous but not indulgent. It feels real and messy.

“A Mighty Heart” is a worthy film on a great, tragic subject. Unlike Winterbottom’s recent film “The Road to Guantanamo,” which dazzled with its technique but left a lot of vagaries hanging in the dusty air, it’s a lucid narrative, revealing another side of terrorist-shadowed life on this planet after Sept. 11, 2001, and after the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq.

Screenwriter John Orloff doesn’t go for “scope” or even much context; he’s content to put one foot in front of the other, following Ms. Pearl’s days and weeks after the kidnapping. Meetings with her husband’s Wall Street Journal colleagues, including editor John Bussey (Denis O’Hare), intertwine with Mariane’s wary relationship with Pakistan’s head of counter-terrorism (Irrfan Khan). Dispatches from an earnest if ineffective American diplomatic security agent (Will Patton) are balanced by Mariane’s friendship with the Pearls’ fellow journalist, Asra (Archie Panjabi).

The end is near throughout “A Mighty Heart.” Winterbottom, who is very good at hurtling chaos, has just enough taste to keep his subjects honest and their pain free of melodrama. If there’s a dimension missing from the film, it’s this: Winterbottom is so focused on keeping the narrative trackable and the audience inside Mariane’s plight, he simplifies here and there. The director does not quite achieve what Paul Greengrass did with “United 93,” which was a stunning amalgam of documentary fakery and dramatic intensity. The Pearl film’s concerns require a different, more intimate sense of suffering. Yet I wonder if a longer version of the film wouldn’t have allowed for more detours and blind alleys and truthful emotional ambiguities. The Pearls’ marriage (Dan Futterman plays Danny, largely in flashbacks) has a slightly idealized glow about it.

As it stands, then, “A Mighty Heart” leads inexorably to Jolie’s magnificent scream, which is more — deeper — than a mere Oscar-baiting moment. The film is most vivid and immediate when Jolie, her character’s patience and facade cracking, accesses a full tangle of impulses at once. She is a uniquely intense screen presence. We can only imagine what Mariane’s ordeal was like. Jolie and Winterbottom come closer than most could have in imagining it for us.

MPAA rating: R (for language).

‘A Mighty Heart’ ***

Directed by Michael Winterbottom; screenplay by John Orloff, based on Mariane Pearl’s book with Sarah Crichton; photographed by Marcel Zyskind; edited by Peter Christelis; production design by Mark Digby; produced by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Andrew Eaton. A Paramount Vantage release; opens Friday. Running time: 1:48.

Mariane Pearl … Angelina Jolie

Danny Pearl … Dan Futterman

Asra Nomani … Archie Panjabi

Captain … Irrfan Khan

Randall Bennett … Will Patton

John Bussey … Denis O’Hare

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mjphillips@tribune.com

Copyright © 2007, Chicago Tribune

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Gotta leave this place, gotta find some place
Some other place, some brand new place
Some place where each face that I see
Won’t be staring back at me
Telling me what to be and how to be it
Some place where I can just be me
Gotta move, got to get out
Gotta leave this town, gotta find some town
Some big new town, some bright new town
Some new town with new places, new lives
And most of all some new faces
Gotta find a man, a new man
A man who won’t worry ’bout where I go
A man who wont ask how I learned what I know
A man who will know that you’ve gotta be free
A man who will know when to just let me be
Gotta move, gotta get out
Gotta change my life, gotta find my life
I’ll find me a place in some new town and baby
And when I find me that new place, then maybe ours,
Gotta leave this town
Gotta leave this place
Gotta find a new man…
Gotta move!

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