Friday, June 01, 2012

Angelina Jolie hopes movie speaks to her generation

December 24, 2011 |

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Angelina Jolie didn’t plan on directing a movie. But the more she learned about the 1990s Bosnia war, the more she felt responsible for bringing it home to her generation. Jolie threw her energy into “In the Land of Blood and Honey”, writing, co-producing and directing the complex love story set against the horror of the 1992-95 conflict in which more than 100,000 people are believed to have died. The movie, which initially stoked controversy in Bosnia, opens in US theatres on Friday and has been nominated for a Golden Globe award for foreign language film. “I didn’t go into this wanting to be a director, I went into this film because I was moved by the themes,” Jolie, 36, told Reuters.

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