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Friday, December 3, 2010

Angelina Jolie Strikes Back Over Bosnian War Film Criticism

(Reuters) - Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has responded to criticism of his first film, saying that most people return to their interpretation of a love story between a man and a Bosnian Serb woman, on the eve of 1992 -1995 Balkans conflict.

Speaking in Paris before the first of next week a very different movie - the romantic action comedy "The Tourist", in which he starred alongside Johnny Depp - Pretty said his intention was never to wake up controversy with his film set in time Bosnia war.

Bosnian victims of sexual violence during the 1990's wrote to the United Nations, including Oscar winner is an ambassador of good will, saying she did not deserve the post and do not know enough about the ethnic conflict.

"There is a person that has a reference," said Angelina Jolie.

"The absolute majority of the people, population distribution, the Prime Minister, the President has been very positive," he said, adding that 95 percent of the votes of the film had lived through the war.

Jolie has described his film, yet untitled, as a love story between a man and a Muslim Bosnian Serb woman on the eve of the 1992-95 war that killed 100,000 people.

The production team has dropped all plans in Bosnia, however, moving scenes in Sarajevo, to be shot in Budapest, after a minister of Bosnia has revoked the shooting in October, citing incomplete documentation.

The decision came after the minister has met with women victims of war in Bosnia, who said he objected to the details of the plot.

Jolie, who also wrote the screenplay, said he had initially agreed to write only to express their frustrations within the international community to intervene in conflicts.

"She kept leaning towards Yugoslavia at the time, I wanted to know more about him and the people, the more I read and heard that I was drawn to this part of the world," he said.

"I met the artists of this region and found that their experiences were extraordinary, so I wanted to give them a platform."

The "Tomb Raider" star has called on women victims of war in a letter to uphold the decision until they see the film in which he said "there are many plot twists that deal with the sensitive nature of the relationships between the main characters. "