A review from Cannes about Changeling, which was written by JMS, directed (and scored) by Clint Eastwood, and starring Angelina Jolie, Jeffrey Donovan and John Malkovich:
Eastwood’s “Changeling” a Jolie tour de force
By Kirk HoneycuttCANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - For only the second time in his filmmaking career, Clint Eastwood settles on a heroine for his latest celebration of the loner who bucks the system.
Like Hilary Swank’s boxer in “Million Dollar Baby,” Angelina Jolie’s single mother, Christine Collins, takes every punch thrown at her in “Changeling,” and comes back fighting. Her combat is not in a boxing ring — where fighting is supposed to take place — but rather in a corrupt police department, psychiatric ward and the court of justice where she demands to know one thing: What happened to her son?
A true story that is as incredible as it is compelling, Eastwood’s competition entry brushes away the romantic notion of a more innocent time to reveal a Los Angeles circa 1928 awash in corruption and steeped in a culture that treats women as hysterical and unreliable beings when they challenge male wisdom.
Just as a follow up Changeling did not win. Guess JMS will have to wait for an Oscar instead.