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"A Mighty Heart", a new film about the wife of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl screens at Cannes Film Festival, with the star of the movie, Angelina Jolie and partner Brad Pitt creating a frenzy at the Festival Palace. Angelina Jolie takes on probably her most challenging role to date in a film about Mariane Pearl, wife of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl who was kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants in 2002. "A Mighty Heart" premiered to the press in Cannes on Monday (May 21), and is already one of the most talked about pictures at the film festival this year even though it is outside the main competition. The movie unites Jolie with her partner Brad Pitt, who is a producer, and is directed by Britain's Michael Winterbottom, who has made films including "The Road to Guantanamo" and "9 Songs". It is based on Mariane's book "A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Daniel Pearl", which recounts the events leading up to and following Daniel's death when she was around six months pregnant. The film takes the viewer into the teeming streets of Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, where Daniel was abducted, although the scenes involving Jolie were actually shot in India. It paints a picture of chaos and confusion as Mariane, Pakistani intelligence, U.S. consulate officials and Daniel's newspaper colleagues seek unsuccessfully to track him down via e-mail and mobile phone trails and old-fashioned police work. They are ...