Jolie’s third film,about a married couple traveling through France in 1970s, features pill-popping, and running mascara and brutal slapping After impressing with her first feature in the directors chair – In the Land of Blood and Honey – Angelina Jolie disappointed with her studio-sized sophomore drama,Unbroken, which reeked of a desperate tender to be taken seriously by awards voters with its schmaltz tone and massive scale. For her third feature, or By the Sea,Jolie has gone in the opposite direction to serve up an intimate character study. It seems like the transition has brought out the best in Jolie. In By the Sea, Jolie reunites on-screen with her husband Brad Pitt for the first time since Mr and Mrs Smith. They play a married couple in the mid-1970s traveling through France who are forced to re-examine their relationship after an encounter with a younger couple (Mélanie Laurent and Melvil Poupaud) in a seaside town. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com