Angelina and Brad Pitt Get Mixed Reviews at Cannes

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie caused a crowd frenzy in Cannes with the simple act of holding hands. OK, make that the two most famous and perfect-looking people on the planet were holding hands.

The duo's PDA was on display as they visited a French restaurant last night and had a romantic meal, perhaps celebrating the announcement that Jolie's directorial debut was picked up by a distributor and the premiere of Pitt's latest prestige pic, the Terrence Malick-helmed The Tree of Life.

So who purchased Jolie's controversial film on the Bosnian War? And what did the reviewers say about Pitt's performance?
First Jolie's movie, which is set during the Bosnian War and focusing on a fictional romance between a Bosnian woman and a Serbian man. The film made headlines for its trouble-plagued shoot. The production was initially banned from being filmed in Sarajevo after Bosnian officials had concerns with the script, then it wrapped early in the country and decamped to Budapest.

Well, after months of calling the movie variations on Untitled Angelina Jolie Project, we have learned that the official title is In the Land of Blood and Honey and it will be released by FilmDistrict, a subsidiary of GK Films, in the U.S. on Dec. 23.

Meanwhile, Pitt's latest endeavor is earning decidedly mix notices. Sure, his flicks tend to polarize critics, but there have been huge expectations this time out, seeing that he's starring with Sean Penn in a drama by the iconoclastic Malick, who has made just five movies in his 40-year career and whose rare output usually sends critics into a tizzy.

The Hollywood Reporter likens the movie to 2001: A Space Odyssey, claiming Tree is "hardly a movie for the masses and will polarize even buffs." But the review goes on to say that there are "great, heady" things in the film, "both obvious and evanescent," that will qualify it as an "exceptional and major film." And the trade hails Pitt's performance as one of his fines.

Variety calls the movie an "extraordinary" and "transfixing" through time and memory.

And then there are the outright haters.

Entertainment Weekly gave Tree a big thumbs-down, describing the movie as a sermon that goes off on too many tangents.

Movieline bashed it, too, calling the film a "gargantuan work of pretension and cleverly concealed self absorption" in which Malick pays more attention to the gorgeous photography than he does to the characters.

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Cannes Film Festival to Welcome Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

The French Riviera is the place to be this week, as movie stars flock to the 64th Cannes Film Festival on the Mediterranean in the south of France.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are both expected to attend, for different films. Jolie arrives Thursday (along with Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman) for Kung Fu Panda 2. Pitt is due next Monday for The Tree of Life. The couple are expected to walk the red carpet together for his premiere.

Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams joined Woody Allen for photos on Wednesday. They costar in Allen's new film, Midnight in Paris, which opens the festival.

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Is Angelina Jolie Hiding a Baby Bump?

As OK! reported last week, rumors about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt adding a baby to their brood are swirling. The evidence: Angie inked a seventh tattoo of geographical coordinates on her left shoulder to go with the half-dozen others that signify the places in which each of her children were born. (Though some say, because the latitude line passes through Brad’s hometown of Shawnee, Okla., the ink symbolizes a secret wedding.)

As usual, the world’s most glamorous couple have reserved comment either way, but now we can add another bit of visual validation for the pregnancy theory: When Brad and Angie attended the opening night of Center Theatre Group’s God of Carnage in L.A. on April 13 (as guests of star James Gandolfini), Angelina wore a bulky coat that seemed to camouflage a certain, well, abdominal extension!

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt catch 'God of Carnage' opening

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt took in a night of theater Wednesday, attending the opening of "God of Carnage" at the Ahmanson Theatre.

Hollywood's hottest couple slipped in a back entrance, avoiding the paparazzi on the red carpet, professional autograph-seekers and throngs of mere mortals milling outside the downtown L.A. theater.

Seated in the center orchestra, Pitt and Jolie kept their eyes squarely focused on each other, seemingly oblivious to the double takes and spinning heads around them (even actress Frances Conroy was spotted sneaking a peek). Jolie and Pitt offered polite acknowledgments when Center Theatre Group artistic director Michael Ritchie and his wife, actress Kate Burton, took their seats next to the pair.

The couple were guests of James Gandolfini, who stars in "Carnage" along with Hope Davis, Jeff Daniels and Marcia Gay Harden. The comedy revolves around two couples meeting for the first time after their children get into a playground fight. Pitt kept a hand casually draped on Jolie's God-of-Carnage-gallery knee for much of the show, letting loose an especially hearty laugh when Gandolfini's character, Michael, uttered the line: "Children consume our lives and then destroy them." They joined in the standing ovation at the end, then were quickly ushered out of the theater to meet with cast members backstage.

Also in the audience were Will Ferrell (taking a night off from his new job in "The Office"), Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet from "Modern Family," Martin Sheen; Simon Helberg of "The Big Bang Theory," Aubrey Plaza of "Parks and Recreation," Troian Bellisario of "Pretty Little Liars," Andrea Bowen of "Desperate Housewives, and Sara Gilbert of "HawthoRNe." Others included Ron Livingston and wife Rosemarie DeWitt, Mira Furlan, Tony Shalhoub, Bradley Whitford, Annie Potts and Jason Alexander. Click the pic above for more photos from opening night.

Spotted at the after-party at Chaya Downtown: Sandra Oh of "Grey's Anatomy," Anjelica Huston, Stacy Keach, Julian Sands, Jon Polito, Gina Gershon, Eric Idle, playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton and Camryn Manheim.

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Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Married? She’s Wearing A Wedding Ring!

Angelina’s gold band has the rumor mill buzzing again — after she tattooed a seventh coordinate on her arm that turned out to be for Brad! Did they have a secret wedding?
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt might have made it official! The mom-of-six is wearing a gold wedding band on her ring finger — but it’s on her right hand. OK! Magazine reports that this is a very common French tradition and since the brood has been living in the south of France, it makes sense she choose to do this!Angie is sporting the geographical coordinates of Brad’ birthplace, Shawnee, Okla., on her left arm, adding to the tattoos of the latitudes and longitudes of the birthplaces for each of her six children.

Brad and Angelina have stuck to their no-marriage stance since getting together in 2005 on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. But the ring and new tattoo may mean Angie has taken the plunge with her long-time partner!

“It means she is fully committed to Brad for life,” a source tells OK! “And it wouldn’t surprise anyone that she’s eager to show off the ring.”

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Out With All Six Kids in New Orleans to Buy Snacks (video)

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt brought all six kids along for a trip to the market in New Orleans on Sunday. Angelina arrived with Pax, Maddox, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne on Friday to join Brad where he has been shooting Cogan's Trade.

Pax led the way with his snack while Angelina held hands with the twins in the rear. Knox and Vivienne are so cute in their dressy outfits — check out video of their adorable day. Zahara and Shiloh are both rocking stripes and Maddox is such a little man in his tank. Brad's hair and goatee are for his role, but he skipped the slicked-back look for the outing with his family.


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