Angelina Jolie Asked Critics to Hold Judgment against Bosnian War Movie

The Tourist" src="//cfm.yidio.com/images/article/images/artcile_164.jpg" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float: left; width: 351px; height: 239px; " />Angelina Jolie asked her critics particularly the leader of the Women Victims of War to hold their judgment against her directorial debut about the Bosnian war movie in the early 90’s.

While promoting her latest movie “The Tourist” in Paris, Jolie told Reuters, “There’s one person who has a gripe.”

The actress is referring to Bakira Hesecic, leader of the Women Victims of War who is outspokenly criticizing Jolie’s Bosnian war movie and sent a complaint letter to the United Nations refugee agency. Angelina Jolie is an appointed UN Ambassador of Goodwill for the agency.

In her letter Hesecic wrote, "Angelina Jolie's ignorant attitude towards victims says enough about the scenario and gives us the right to continue having doubts about it.”

Jolie strongly emphasized, "The absolute majority of the people, population, the cast, prime minister, president have been extremely supportive.”

Furthermore, she said that the vast majority of the film's crew had lived through the war, which lasted from 1992 to 1995.

According to Jolie, the film is a love story between a Bosnian woman and Serbian man on the eve of the 1992-95 Balkans conflict and she did not intend to stir any controversy.

She said that the untitled movie has many twists in the plot addressing the sensitive nature of the relationship between the main characters.

Angelina Jolie wrote the screenplay of the movie and explained that she originally decided to highlight her frustration on the length of time it takes the international community to intervene in conflicts.

The Hollywood star also said, "It kept leaning toward Yugoslavia at the time, I wanted to learn more about it and the people, the more I read and learnt I was drawn to that part of the world. I met artists from that part of the world and found they were extraordinary for what they'd gone through, so I wanted to give them a platform."

Prior to Hesecic’s complaint letter to the UN refugee agency, a group of Bosnian War rape victims pressured city officials to withdraw Jolie’s filming permit last October because of rumors that the movie is about a rapist love story.

The country’s Minister of Culture read the script and proved that the allegations are not true so he reinstated the permit.