Clint Eastwood’s Movie “Changeling” Premieres at Cannes Today
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Angelina Jolie, who is pregnant with twins, 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, Christine Collins, 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 and is due in theaters this fall. The movie is expected to be the latest Academy Awards entry for Eastwood, 77.
According to reports, 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.
“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.”
This movie is going to be AMAZING!
Here are the pictures of Angelina and Brad looking stunning at the Cannes Premiere today:
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