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CANNES, France – The Cannes Film Festival got its biggest shot of celebrityadrenaline yet on Tuesday, even if it was only half the dose somewere expecting. Brad Pitt arrived at the festival with the stylish, hardboiled film"Killing Them Softly," which he produced and stars in. The film, anadaptation of a George V. Higgins crime novel directed by AndrewDominik, was screened Tuesday in competition for the Palme d'Or. While many were wrangling with the film's audacious juxtaposing ofa story of violent back-stabbing criminals with an overt politicalsubtext, others were being gently let down by Pitt: No, AngelinaJolie wasn't with him, as she's preparing for a role, he said. Andtheir highly anticipated wedding has no date set, he said in apress conference. But "Killing Them Softly" left much for discussion. Pitt stars as akind of fixer who organizes the necessary retribution of twothieves (Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn) who rob a poker game ofgangsters. Woven throughout are billboards, radio broadcast andtelevised speeches of U.S. President Barack Obama and formerPresident George W. Bush. Though the book ("Cogan's Trade") takes place in the 1970s, thefilm is set in 2008, during the presidential election and thefinancial crisis. At one point, Pitt's character pronounces:"America's not a country, it's a business." "We were certainly at the apex of the mortgage loan debacle," Pittsaid on the beginning of the project. "I felt that I was reading agangster film and it wasn't until the very end that it coalescedfor me as far what the direction of the film is pointing to overall— that this microcosm is actually saying something about themacro world." Pitt said he doesn't intend "Killing Them Softly," which isscheduled for theatrical release this September, to be read as hisviews or to be fodder for the upcoming election season. "I always feel that crime films are about capitalism," saidDominik, the director of "The Assassination of Jesse James by theCoward Robert Ford." 'It's the only genre where it's perfectlyaccepted for all the characters to be motivated by a desire formoney only." ___ Online: www.festival-cannes.fr/en.html ___ Contact Jake Coyle at: twitter.com/jake_coyle. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as China Sea Fishing Tripod , China Laser Level Tripod for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Surveying Tripods.
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