Angelina Jolie's new film The Exchange premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday. The film changed its title from The Changeling only a couple of days earlier.
Directed by Clint Eastwood, the film -- based on a true story -- sees Jolie in the role of a mother in 1920s' Los Angeles, whose nine-year old son is abducted. When a boy claiming to be her son returns after a few months, Jolie's character rejects him.
Before the film's world premiere, Jolie revealed to reporters that doing the film was a 'healing' experience for her.
The actress, who lost her French-born mother, Marcheline Bertrand, to cancer in January last year also revealed that her grief was responsible for her dramatic weight loss last year.
'This is personal but I lost my mother a few months before the film and my character was very much like my mother. My mother was very passive in many ways and as a woman she was very shy, but when it came to her children she was a lioness. It was a way to revisit my mother and spend time with her. It was very nice and very healing for me,' the Telegraph.co.uk quoted the actress as saying.
In the picture: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the world premiere fo The Exchange in Cannes on Tuesday.
Photographs: Getty Images
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