| 8 weeks 4 days 20 hours ago Jolie's latest drama hits close to home
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(NECN: Cannes, France) - Angelina Jolie was back at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, this time for the film "Changeling," a mystery directed by Clint Eastwood.
Eastwood, a regular at Cannes, led the jury in 1994 and has showed films at the festival including "Mystic River," but has never won the top prize.
His latest offering is set in 1920's Los Angeles and sees Jolie as Christine, the mother of a kidnapped child.
Five months after the kidnapping a child claiming to be the boy is returned and police are eager to bask in a public relations coup of reuniting mother and son.
"Certainly so much of it is being a mother and imagining if this was happening to me, my pain and my frustration, but I did have to find something else because as I said I couldn't respond in the way of course I would respond today. This is personal but it's true, I lost my mother a few months before the film and to me she is very much like my mother. 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 almost, with her own voice," Jolie said at the news conference.
Like many actors that get the opportunity to work with Clint Eastwood Jolie was full of praise for her director.
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