See full version: Angelina Jolie Opened Up About Her Marriage After Filming By the Sea with Brad Pitt: We Have Fights Like Any Other Couple
“Brad and I have our issues, but if the characters were even remotely close to our problems we couldn’t have made the film,” she revealed. “To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple. We have days when we drive each other absolutely mad and want space, but the problems in the movie aren’t our specific problems.”
Coming out of the film, Jolie told PEOPLE she was more excited than ever for the couple’s future – speaking openly about how much she and Pitt enjoyed growing older together.
“But [we] realized very quickly that it wasn’t,” she said. “Then we joked that this is what happens after 10 years of marriage.” [links]
Just after they wed in 2014, the couple had what Jolie described as an “unconventional” honeymoon – flying to an island off Malta along with their children to scream at one another for weeks while filming By the Sea, which depicted a couple in crisis in 1970s France.
From the very start of their marriage, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt didn’t shy away from conflict.
“It strengthens a relationship if you can pass those big fights and those big things where you really come head-to-head,” she said. “Making the movie, we knew we were beating each other up. We knew we were giving each other tough days. But we agreed to see how far we could push each other.” here
Onlookers reported seeing a man make off with two iPads taken from an SUV belonging to the couple, and police were called to the scene.
It’s thought one of the devices, labelled ‘family,’ was shared between the couple’s six children Vivienne and Knox, four, Shiloh, seven, Zahara, eight, Maddox, eleven, and nine-year-old Pax, and could have contained private family photos.
Insiders say Angelina Jolie has been making enquiries about tying the knot on the Hebridean Princess, a boat sailing off the Scottish coast, which is often used by the royal family. more
“By the Sea” is written, produced and directed by Ms. Jolie Pitt and represents the first time she and Mr. Pitt have appeared on screen together since their 2005 spy thriller “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” The potential pitfalls of directing one’s real-life spouse aside, the movie is a risk in other ways. Set in a quiet seaside town in France, it’s inspired by the deliberately paced European art films of the ’60s and ’70s, and — let the speculation begin — tells the story of an American couple’s imploding marriage. more
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. — During the filming of “By the Sea,” Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt — who play a depressed former dancer and her blocked novelist husband — had a go-to method for lightening an often somber mood on the set. “There were a lot of jokes about how nobody is ever going to want to be our neighbor again,” said Ms. Jolie Pitt, referring to how their characters often spy through a peephole on two lovers in the hotel room next door. [links]
As a director I had to be very sure, very strong in opinion, stable. My character? She shouldn’t direct anything. Not even traffic. She’s a mess. The duality — being a director, then having to become a person that vulnerable — would often be hard. There’s a whole reel of me calling “Cut!” If a doctor saw it, I’d be put on medication. I’m hysterically crying and then calling “Cut!” or during a sex scene I am calling “Cut!” on Brad. You had to laugh at how bizarre it was. [links]
"Neither this nor the tentative, surface-level interactions that follow are enough to turn them into compellingly drawn figures, leaving the actors with little to do but fall back on their not-inconsiderable star wattage. Jolie Pitt proves a canny enough director of her own husband, who brings his strong physicality to bear on the role of Roland in an effectively restrained way. But the actress struggles to spin a coherent performance from what feels like a collection of tortured, grief-stricken poses, and there's something too studied about the way her outdoor attire. " more
He continues, "With such flat-lining and repetitive scenes dominating, two hours is far too long to make an audience wait for a payoff that is hardly about to save the film from its own stasis and dramatic flatness." [links]
The Hollywood Reporter argues that pretty much nothing happens throughout the two-hour film. "They sulk, they smoke, they drink, they spy on the honeymooning couple in the next room through a peephole in the wall," writes Todd McCarthy. "In fact, if it weren't for the latter, hardly anything at all would happen in By the Sea, the kind of vanity project you don't see much of anymore." [links]
Let's be honest—we've all been dying to see Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt return to the big screen together since Mr. and Mrs. Smith. But now that they've done just that with their new movie, By the Sea, we have to wonder if this was worth the wait. Movie reviewers collectively agree that Angelina's third directing effort is a bust, and it looks like their swoon-worthy marriage isn't enough to attract viewers.