Angelina Jolie @ Changeling Premiere

Sorry if this has been posted already - but I especially liked the last paragraph when Angie is talking about her mother.

Jolie, Eastwood debut film at Cannes

CANNES, France (AP) — Pregnant with twins, Angelina Jolie says the story behind her latest drama hits close to home: the loss of a child.

Jolie stars in Clint Eastwood’s “Changeling,” the true story of a Los Angeles woman who endured horrors at the hands of corrupt police in her crusade to find out what happened to her son after he vanished in 1928.

“To lose a child: I can’t imagine anything worse, especially not knowing the fate of that child,” Jolie told reporters after a press screening. “Changeling” makes its formal Cannes Film Festival premiere later Tuesday night.

Due in theaters this fall, “Changeling” could be the latest Academy Awards entry for Eastwood, 77, who has reinvigorated himself with a rush of acclaimed films, including “Mystic River,” “Letters From Iwo Jima” and “Million Dollar Baby,” the latter earning the second best-picture and directing Oscars of Eastwood’s career.

Jolie, 32, delivers a heartbreaking performance as Christine Collins, a single mom who works hard so she can take good care of her 9-year-old boy, Walter. The child disappears, and five months later, the distraught Christine is overjoyed when police tell her Walter has been found, alive and well.

But when the boy claiming to be Walter Collins is returned to her, Christine insists that he isn’t her son.

She winds up in a nightmare battle with bureaucrats trying to cover up their own mistakes as thugs in the police department brand her an unfit mother who wants to shirk her responsibilities as a parent. Christine eventually is tossed into a psychiatric ward by police seeking to silence her.

“I was so astonished by the extent to which she suffered by asking one simple, clear question: What happened to my child,” said J. Michael Straczynski, who researched Christine Collins’ ordeal and wrote the screenplay for “Changeling.” “She did all the heavy lifting. I just wrote it down.”

Meantime, an unrelated case provides a clue to Walter’s fate and that of other missing children as a detective tracks a serial killer suspected of abducting boys and savagely slaughtering them.

“Changeling” co-stars John Malkovich, who appeared in Eastwood’s “In the Line of Fire,” as a minister who comes to Christine’s aid; and Amy Ryan, an Oscar nominee for last year’s “Gone Baby Gone,” as a prostitute who befriends her in the psych ward.

The film touches on themes familiar to Eastwood, who dealt with child abduction and abuse in “A Perfect World” and “Mystic River.”

“Children in danger, of course, is about the highest form of drama you can have,” Eastwood said. “Crimes against children are to me the most heinous. … When one comes along quite as big as this one, you question humanity. It never ceases to surprise me how cruel humanity can be.”

Jolie was in Cannes for both “Changeling” and her animated comedy “Kung Fu Panda,” which premiered near the beginning of the festival last week. News broke then that Jolie and partner Brad Pitt, who already have four children, are expecting twins.

Though Jolie said she could imagine the pain and frustration if she were in Christine’s situation, she had to look beyond her own children and position as a “very modern and very outspoken woman” to play the character.

Christine fought her battle at a time when women did not have the same power to speak their minds as today, Jolie said. So Jolie found inspiration in her own mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, who died in January 2007.

“To me, she’s very much like my mother,” Jolie said. “My mother was very passive in many ways and very, very sweet, but when it came to her children, she was a lion. But as a woman, very shy with her own voice. So in many ways, Christine reminded me of my mom, and it was a way to kind of revisit my mother after her passing and spend time with her.”

Jewels by Bulgari again? Or not?

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I only love to see her when she smiles with her lips close, don’t like her teeth shown when she smile. But i love this couple though.

i dont like the dress but otherwise, she looks fabulous! hope she gets nominated for an oscar this year…she got snubbed last year. im pretty sure the changeling will be a huge success!!

angelina is a really hot mummy! she looks great even now when she’s pregnant and gained a lot of pounds. she’s got a great body; I read here (www.projectweightloss.com) she does kickboxing - this is really cool! it probably helped her stay in shape.

For all those crazies whose heads are about to explode because she kissed a WOMAN!! - if you watch the video of them on the RC, the kiss would have been lucky to last 1/2 second! More like a peck than a kiss!

pretty women Shitious dress.
Brad looks so over it.

PP - 688 LOL!! I had to laugh when I saw this, too.
Remember how a kiss to her brother became “making out” and “French kissing” to the sexually repressed who probably don’t get kissed more than a couple of times a month? No tongue, but if you aren’t getting laid, your mind goes into overdrive.

Now two friends, obviously in love with their male partners who are standing RIGHT NEXT TO THEM, barely touch lips in a public greeting out of the sheer joy and respect for each other and the project they are doing, and it’s some sort of lesbian thing to the people whose imagination runs wild about sex. One even called it a “lip lock” and they are barely touching! LOL!!

I had a friend’s wife kiss me on the lips recently because I was supportive of something he did creatively. Just a “Smmack!!” out of appreciation, not a lingering sexual kiss. But day-um!! These folks would go nuts in here, wouldn’t they?

ROFL!! No wonder the bigots voted for Bush last time around! Foolish people….

an oldie @ 05/20/2008 at 4:58 pm #340 : My take on the dresses. While the one she wore yesterday was beautiful, and I like it better, the one she wears today is more dressy, and more appropriate for a night red carpet event. The other one is more for afternoon-evening occasion.

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About her dress at Changeling Premier night…. I think it is appropriate to the kind of the movie she is starring in. I’ve got the feeling before this premier night that she would wear “differently”, not the usual very glamorous type of a dress. Changeling is a very serious film & the plot is in the old era, thus the hair & the dress. Just like last year, she wore a very glamorous, eye-catching color sexy dress during Ocean’s 13 premier while she chose a simple, dress-down get-up during A Mighty Heart premier. Besides, now that she is pregnant again, to wear something very comfortable & the style/ color is subdued is just proper & right. She just wanted to wear something that goes with the theme of the movie…a SERIOUS one. Not about fashion but refocus our attention to the message of the movie. I know that her blessed physical attributes plus her belly or her just being THE ANGELINA JOLIE will never fail to attract attention but at least she knows in her heart what should be the focus & she was doing her part. And the more I admire her for that. My admiration for her transcends beyond beauty in the outside but more on her pure & kind intentions.

About the kissing gesture….Angie is a well-travelled person. She is exposed to different or varied cultures aside from the fact that she is not the type of a person whose actions are dictated by righteous people. I live in a somewhat conservative country (Philippines) but I respect other people’s culture, traditions & practices. I didn’t find anything wrong about it. No malice at all. Besides, as what she said before, SHE DOESN’T HAVE TO DEFEND HERSELF TO ANYONE THAT SHE’S A DECENT PERSON. I believe she is. It amuses me that every move she makes, every word she utters, every dress she wears, practically everything is noticed, admired or nitpicked by everyone. She is that fascinating & interesting individual ! Yet, she doesn’t care what people say. Her best revenge is to live life the best she can without hurting anyone. Isn’t she great?!!

WOW!!!! WOW!!!!! WOW!!!!!! THEY make me sick….they are so DELICIOUS to look at…. WHATS UP WITH THAT>>>>>

Althea @ 05/21/2008 at 11:18 am First, topless on the terrace and now kissing Dina Eastwood full on the lips! Is Angelina walking on the wild side again?

Only in the mind of malicious people like you would a smack on the lips as a greeting be turn into something dirty. A s for being topless people in France sunbathe topless ..geeez zzzz what century are you from ?? FYI madonna kiss one of her back up dancer recently so I guess Madonna is walking on her wild side again.. YOU are a Braindead MORON.

I just love them