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| Jolie quiets Bosnian critics with war film screening Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:38 AM PST  Director of the movie Angelina Jolie poses at the premiere of "In the Land of Blood and Honey" at the Arclight theatre in Los Angeles on December 8, 2011. ― Reuters pic Objections to filming Jolie's tale of love between a Serb man and a Muslim woman in Bosnia last year forced the Hollywood star to shoot most of the film in nearby Hungary. Only some of the exterior scenes were shot in Bosnia. But last night's screening of the film in Sarajevo to representatives of victims' associations elicited positive reactions from some of Jolie's toughest local critics. "She has made a fantastic film for Bosnia and Herzegovina, I can really say that from the angle of a victim," Murat Tahirovic, the president of Bosnia's association of (wartime) detainees, told the Federal Television in Sarajevo. Tahirovic was among a dozen representatives of wartime victims invited to the closed screening of Jolie's directorial debut "In The Land of Blood and Honey". "Everybody should see this film," Tahirovic said. In October 2010, a Bosnian minister cancelled Jolie's filming permits citing incomplete paperwork, after female victims of the Bosnian war objected to details of the plot, alleging it was about love between a rapist and his victim. The film tells a tale of love between a Serb man and a Muslim woman before the Bosnian war, who later meet in different circumstances ― he is an army officer and she is his detainee. Victims of sexual violence in Bosnia wrote to the United Nations refugee agency, saying Jolie did not deserve her role as a UNHCR Good Will Ambassador, and did not know enough about the Bosnian conflict. Jolie first came to Bosnia last year as an UNHCR ambassador. She filmed most of the feature in Budapest but asked war victims voicing their objections to the movie to reserve judgement until they had seen the finished product. One of the loudest opponents to Jolie filming in Bosnia said she was now satisfied by the film's portrayal of the war. "Two hours of film is not enough time to show all (the horrors of the war), but I think Angelina managed to do it," said Sadzida Hadzic of the Women-Victims of War Association. However, Hatidza Mehmedovic, who lost her husband and two teenage sons in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys, said she was disappointed the film was shot elsehwere, if it was shot in Bosnia," she told Reuters. The closed screening was organised by the Centre for post-conflict research, and was not open to media. ― Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Adele is iTunes top-seller of 2011 Posted: 08 Dec 2011 05:10 PM PST  Adele performs at the 51st annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles February 8, 2009. — Reuters pic The 23-year-old singer's single "Rolling in the Deep" beat stiff competition from Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, LMFAO and CeeLo Green in the top-selling songs category, while her album "21" was able to surpass records from Mumford & Sons, Lil Wayne, Coldplay and Kanye West and Jay-Z. The iTunes Rewind list highlights the year's most downloaded items from Apple Inc's iTunes stores but the company did not give sales figures. Rock group Foo Fighters' seventh studio album "Wasting Light" was named Album of the Year, while rapper Nicki Minaj was given the Breakthrough Artist of the Year title, while Los Angeles indie rock group Foster The People achieved the Song of the Year title with "Pumped Up Kicks." David Fincher's 2010 film "The Social Network" topped the best-selling film list, while BBC's "Doctor Who" series was the top-selling television series, and the "Angry Birds" game was named the top-selling paid app for iPhone and iPad. — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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