Eastwood directs Jolie in 1920s lost child drama
Cannes, Anatole France (Reuters) - Clint Eastwood directs Angelina Jolie in a gripping 1920s dramatic event based on the true story of a woman whose search for her missing son forced her to confront the Los Angeles police force and a serial kid killer.
There was discombobulation on Tuesday over the advert of the moving-picture show, single of 22 entries in the main contest at the Cannes cinema festival this year. It was originally titled "The Imbecile" but production notes re-named it "The Substitution".
Based on archives from Los Angeles Metropolis Hall that were around to be destroyed until film writer J. Michael Straczynski rescued them after a lean forth, the story is around workings class mother Christine Wilkie Collins whose nine-year-old logos goes missing.
A police force force in desperate need of positive degree packaging says they have constitute the boy, only when William Wilkie Collins insists the child is non hers she is subjected to a daub military campaign and sent to a psychiatric ward for little Phoebe years.
With the help of a charismatic minister, played by Privy Malkovich, Collins goes in search of the trueness, exposing corruption and incompetency in the law force along the room.
Separately, a series baby killer is caught, and the deuce storylines start to come forth.
"This char, through her tenacious attitude, brought down the unit law department and the whole political social structure -- the city manager was non re-elected," Eastwood said afterwards a push showing, where "The Interchange" was applauded obstreperously.
"It's a great study on human characteristics, this 1 mother combat against the unit urban center," added the 77-year-old.
