Angelina Jolie broke the decay as a filmmaker regarding epics. With Unbroken, she made a holiday World War II blockbuster which appeals to the faith-based, grossing over $161 M worldwide and in the Fremantle/The Apartment produced Italian production of Without Blood, she visually shares and surpasses Terrence Malik’s on-screen style of Days of Heaven in a movie which is inspired by the Mexican western period.
Without Blood is Jolie’s sixth feature as the director of a film. But the quitter actress-filmmaker received the TIFF Tribute Award in Impact Media some time back.
Angelina Jolie told us in the Deadline TIFF studio earlier today, “When I read the book, I hadn’t read something in a long time, not in my memory, which addressed that complex gray area of human beings. I feel I study a lot of conflict in films I directed and wrote, and this was an aspect of it, this after, this idea for it to end, how it lingers with us and what it is.
One of the themes in the movie is: “death in daylight,” Jolie adds. Please watch the interview above with Hayek and Bichir, where they also talk about the actors’ director, Jolie, the safe space she gave them, and the times she challenged — even if the shooting was ahead of schedule.
Tonight, at the TIFF Tribute Awards, Hayek said that Jolie is “The best actor-director I have ever worked with.”
Angelina Jolie’s autumn has also begun very promisingly, with Netflix acquiring Pablo Larrain’s Maria – a movie where she portrays a famous opera diva, Maria Callas, in her final years of the 1970s.
