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Angelina Jolie: Jolie and Loung Ung

angelina jolie: Sep 15, 9 pm, Princess of Wales; Sep 17, 5 30 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 1, according to NOW Magazine. Rating NNNIf you need an excuse to catch Angelina Jolie's First They Killed My Father at TIFF this weekend instead of on Netflix it will simultaneously be available starting Friday consider the big screen benefit. Cambodia. 136 min. Jolie, outdoing her previous directorial efforts, captures Cambodia's wartime horror in beautiful, haunting visuals. Adapting Loung Ung's memoirs the Cambodian author co-wrote the screenplay with Jolie the film recounts the late-70s Khmer Rouge atrocities from a child's perspective. Shot by Anthony Dod Mantle of Dogme and Danny Boyle fame the images are especially elegant when watching people move, whether it's child soldiers in formation or refugees clamouring to escape harm. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.