Brad and Angie Hit The Red Carpet

A grandly pregnant Angelina Jolie, star of Clint Eastwood's The Changeling (which seems to switching titles to The Exchange), strolled the red carpet at Cannes' Palais des Festivals in a light rain with the sardonically grinning Brad Pitt.

Early reviews were glowing, as in Todd McCarthy's Variety summation:

A thematic companion piece to "Mystic River" but more complex and far-reaching, "Changeling" impressively continues Clint Eastwood's great run of ambitious late-career pictures. Emotionally powerful and stylistically sure-handed, this true story-inspired drama begins small with the disappearance of a young boy, only to gradually fan out to become a comprehensive critique of the entire power structure of Los Angeles, circa 1928. Graced by a top-notch performance from Angelina Jolie, the Universal release looks poised to do some serious business upon tentatively scheduled opening late in the year.

The consipucously enceinte Jolie handled an earlier press conference with aplomb (reminding questioners that just as the disempowered female character in the film was put in an anguishing fix by a patriarchal system, not every country in the world is as advanced n that regard as America now is, and noted that as a mother she found no great stretch in portraying a mother's anguish on film in the story of having a son go missing.

Eastwood, asked by an effusive red carpet reporter how he got such images and such performances, shot a sideways look and said, "I got lucky."

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