Jolie hails widow’s strength

ANGELINA Jolie, who plays the widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in A Mighty Heart, said she was overwhelmed by Mariane Pearl’s inner strength and her ability to let go of hatred.

Jolie, Pearl and Brad Pitt, the movie’s co-producer, were at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday for the premiere of the movie about Pearl’s abduction and murder in Pakistan in 2002 while researching a story on Islamic militants.

The film, shot in a naturalistic documentary style, recounts the search to find Pearl’s kidnappers and his widow’s struggle to come to terms with his death.