"Der Spiegel" about the movie Angelina Jolie

"Der Spiegel" about the movie Angelina Jolie: As if resurrected Nazi camps during World War II

"In the Land of Blood and Honey" by all the outstanding movie, says "FAZ"

Written by Radio Free Europe | Posted 22.02.2012. at 02:05

   

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Directorial debut of Angelina Jolie, "In the Land of Blood and Honey" is a wartime melodrama that speaks of love in the dark times, but more about how love is weak or strong to do evil and win, writes Jörg Schöning in "Der Spiegel". The play presented a strong image, strongly played scenes and simple form. with Angelina Jolie always comes glamor, writes in "Spiegel's" Jörg Schöning. It just seems to radiate and shine it works at all, but what was presented at Berlinale 2012th has no connection with any glamor or the glory of war. "In the Land of Blood and Honey" is anything but sweet bite. Jolie has made ​​a movie that nobody would willingly made, nor looked at. But what attracts the undivided attention. It is non-political melodrama that begins as a simple love story.Sarajevo, 1992. It is a painter, he policeman. Ajla is Muslim, Christian Daniel. In clubs, where they dance a bomb explodes. This marks the beginning of ethnic cleansing, which she'll become a victim and Ajla. All these people were deported to the camp where Serbian soldiers now belongs to Daniel.While other women were systematically raped and humiliated, Ajla at the beginning of Daniel's protection and spared the fate of other women. In this view, war is nothing you have not been spared. Neither the execution nor the massacre and mass graves. As they resurrected the Nazi camps of World War II. Angelina Jolie shows moreover how a war of men against women. It does not explain where violence is encouraged, but dramatically indicates to which leads. Ajla being abused, beaten, raped, using them as human shields by the rain of bullets. The moments of tenderness that occur only reinforce the fear. When Angelina Jolie showed the beauty and fragility of the female body seems calculated to enhance the contrast of the surrounding events. One night Daniel takes Ajlu Museum, in which hangs the picture of her favorite author, the image you always wanted to touch. Her lover, now a "warlord" and allows her to Ajla, which passes over the fingertips of linen, surprise finds that the painter of powerful strokes inflicted one color over another.

Such a powerful move and Angelina has color film, says, "Der Spiegel". To the viewer touched, all capture the powerful. To be absolutely sure that everyone will, without reserve, to understand what is happening in Bosnia. The war also gets something atavistic. FAZ: Heavy, nesentimentalan movie "In the Land of Blood and Honey" by all the outstanding movie, just like Angelina Jolie and all exceptional: her looks, her career, her partner, her license to fly, her humanitarian work, her star status, writes Johanna Adorjan the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". actress' debut is a difficult, nesentimentalan movie about the war in Yugoslavia, he writes, "FAZ". In the center of attention is a love story between Bosnian Muslim and Christian, told with quite easily argue that the dialogue is expressed only what is most important for understanding the recent war in BiH. but still impressive, and very touching, especially in the first half. A war movie that brings a female perspective on events. This means that talking about rape, but the unconscious and how it looks when you kill a child, and when used as human shields, as well as humiliated, bound, beaten, when you're weak and you're a victim. woman who played Lara Croft, which is often played cold-profi-killer, which is easy to imagine with guns, made ​​a film that deals with war crimes against women. There's a little bit "sister". Coincidentally in the audience around me were sitting in the theater mostly women.Almost all were crying, some of them several times. And one, right next to my seat, after a scene in which Ajlinoj sister kill a child, loudly sobbed and one by the end of the film could not be comforted.story told wisp is a measure when it has decided to direct a movie, you could make Angelina Jolie and lighter job. But no, all the filth, violence, pain and suffering, which was introduced as a goodwill ambassador, Jolie has made ​​in its war drama "In the land of blood and honey," the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" Anke Sterneborg.

Given the chasm that divides the world into which she lives and where he shows in his debut, it was easy to let the doubts - it is not done just because you and the movie "Attach as one of the brooches expensive"? Or is Jolie learned something in life and used his fame to do something that is important for all of us? Asks Anke Sterneborg. and answers - and the problem of other dilemmas.Angelina Jolie sees things very clearly: "When I wake up in the morning I am a mother who feeds her children and husband who cares for her husband. I want to read newspapers and know something about the world in which I live. And sometimes we're given a chance to go out of that environment and be part of the world who wants to change something. I have a job that is fun, but that has little to do with real life. " When Angelina appear before you in a light beige dress shirt, with very high heels with his mysterious eyes, lush lips and curls, she is a star. But when he starts talking about his film, about the country and the war that is the theme of her directing debut, only becoming aware of her standing in front of the integrity of the work, describes in the OT Anke Sterneborg-in. Its actors, Bosnians who have experienced war in their own skin, Trust her no rest, because their story is so wisp measure apologized. Grateful to her as she told the story of impossible love in the given circumstances, not of guilt.

Rade Serbedzija, who played in movies like "X-Men," "Harry Potter" all the meals of Serbian film refused, saying: "Nobody in Serbia has not seen the movie, but several tabloid wrote that bad, that it is a critique of America buried, and that Angelina Jolie is looking for the abolition of the Republic of Serbian. And the next day they sold 100,000 copies in the newspaper. And when for three days and yet lie wrote that Angelina said that the Serbs are bastards and murderers, they sold new 100,000 ". Basically , Angelina Jolie's political views are not at all important. "I wanted to do a human story and show what happens with some company that is left to the war. This is a potential that has failed because the world did not intervene and give support." Angelina Jolie really You could, for his first directorial job and find an easier task. world where a woman lying at his feet did not have to engage in this movie and experience the insult it is. But Jolie as the heroine of his film. And they have something of their inner strength directed . "Women in the Balkans is very strong and durable. central character of my film could be a little scared of girls than adult women to make its decision by the strength and intelligence," said Jolie for "Sueddetsche Zeitung".

Powerful images

eve premiere in Berlin, Angelina Jolie has admitted that the seven days before the presentation of his first film, collapsed in the shower, he writes, "Focus." This shocking frankness Hollywood diva talked about the moments in which she could not help even Brad Pitt. "I felt the full weight of my responsibility towards the victims of war," said Jolie, reports weekly magazine Focus, which after watching the film critic noted:  " In a land of blood and honey "is a movie actress. Gestures, language, facial expressions, all in the service of "strong" picture charges and eventually samooptužuje. Jolie starts from the beautiful idea that love is strong, perhaps stronger than hate, and then shows a brave but ultimately futile action to protect . Ajla the BH Muslim-Bosnian Serb Danijel and their love of the game gets more aggressive as the war lasts and the more victims. In the end, the love and the game becomes a battle for supremacy in which ultimately there are only losers.