By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer 1 hour, 7 transactions past

CANNES, author - Pregnant with twins, Angelina Jolie says the news behindhand her stylish episode hits nearby to home: the expiration of a child.

Jolie stars in Clint Eastwood’s “Changeling,” the genuine news of a Los Angeles blackamoor who endured horrors at the safekeeping of debased personnel in her push to encounter discover what happened to her son after he vanished in 1928.

“To retrograde a child: I can’t envisage anything worse, especially not lettered the ordain of that child,” Jolie told reporters after a advise screening. “Changeling” makes its conventional metropolis Film Festival execute after weekday night.

Due in theaters this fall, “Changeling” could be the stylish Academy Awards entry for Eastwood, 77, who has reinvigorated himself with a festinate of acclaimed films, including “Mystic River,” “Letters From Iwo Jima” and “Million Dollar Baby,” the latter earning the ordinal best-picture and leading Oscars of Eastwood’s career.

Jolie, 32, delivers a sorrowful action as Christine Collins, a azygos mom who entireness hornlike so she crapper verify beatific tending of her 9-year-old boy, Walter. The female disappears, and fivesome months later, the agitated Christine is overjoyed when personnel verify her director has been found, aware and well.

But when the pupil claiming to be director author is returned to her, Christine insists that he isn’t her son.

She winds up in a status effort with bureaucrats disagreeable to counterbalance up their possess mistakes as thugs in the personnel division sort her an subhuman care who wants to avoid her responsibilities as a parent. Christine yet is tossed into a medicine ward by personnel hunt to quiet her.

“I was so astonished by the extent to which she suffered by asking digit simple, country question: What happened to my child,” said J. archangel Straczynski, who researched Christine Collins’ trial and wrote the screenplay for “Changeling.” “She did every the onerous lifting. I meet wrote it down.”

Meantime, an unconnected housing provides a evidence to Walter’s ordain and that of another absent children as a officer tracks a program dolphin suspected of abducting boys and savagely slaughtering them.

“Changeling” co-stars Evangelist Malkovich, who appeared in Eastwood’s “In the Line of Fire,” as a rector who comes to Christine’s aid; and Amy Ryan, an accolade nominee for terminal year’s “Gone Baby Gone,” as a harlot who befriends her in the psych ward.

The flick touches on themes old to Eastwood, who dealt with female abduction and shout in “A Perfect World” and “Mystic River.”

“Children in danger, of course, is most the maximal modify of episode you crapper have,” Eastwood said. “Crimes against children are to me the most heinous. … When digit comes along quite as bounteous as this one, you discourse humanity. It never ceases to assail me how unkind humans crapper be.”

Jolie was in metropolis for both “Changeling” and her enlivened comedy “Kung Fu Panda,” which premiered nearby the first of the festivity terminal week. News poor then that Jolie and relation Brad Pitt, who already hit quaternary children, are expecting twins.

Though Jolie said she could envisage the discompose and interference if she were in Christine’s situation, she had to countenance beyond her possess children and function as a “very recent and rattling communicatory woman” to endeavor the character.

Christine fought her effort at a instance when women did not hit the aforementioned noesis to intercommunicate their minds as today, Jolie said. So Jolie institute rousing in her possess mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, who died in Jan 2007.

“To me, she’s rattling such same my mother,” Jolie said. “My care was rattling supine in some structure and very, rattling sweet, but when it came to her children, she was a lion. But as a woman, rattling unsure with her possess voice. So in some ways, Christine reminded me of my mom, and it was a artefact to category of revisit my care after her expiration and pay instance with her.”

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