Angelina Jolie has joined her pseudo-hubby Brad Pitt in France for the Cannes Film Festival as the couple were spotted trying to sneak their way in for a quiet dinner last night. Earlier today, Brad was on hand for a photocall in order to promote his new film Inglourious Basterds which was directed by Quentin Tarantino and also stars Eli Roth, Diane Krueger and more. Here is a pic of Brangelina at Cannes last night and then a couple of pics from Brad‘s appearance at today’s photocall:

U.S. director Quentin Tarantino brings his eagerly awaited World War Two movie “Inglourious Basterds” to the Cannes film festival on Wednesday, with Brad Pitt adding some star power to the red carpet. The movie, which borrows its title from Italian director Enzo Castellari’s 1978 picture “Inglorious Bastards,” is one of 20 entries in the main competition. Tarantino, a favorite in the French Riviera resort, won the coveted Palme d’Or in 1994 with “Pulp Fiction,” and rushed to have his latest movie ready in time to present to the jury. It has been in the works for more than 10 years. “I like that it’s the power of the cinema that fights the Nazis,” Tarantino said in production notes distributed in Cannes before the movie’s world premiere. Pitt’s expected presence will be welcome by many of the thousands of reporters in Cannes, where the world’s biggest film festival is in its second week. It ends with a prize ceremony on Sunday. While critics say the quality of the main selection of films has been generally high, the absence of many A-list stars and celebrities has starved Cannes of some of its usual buzz. Inglourious Basterds is described as a revenge story, a recurring theme at this year’s festival with Hong Kong’s Johnnie To presenting “Vengeance” in the main competition and several more films revolving around retribution. Tarantino’s film is set in the first year of the German occupation of France, where character Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hands of a Nazi colonel. Elsewhere in Europe, Pitt’s character Aldo Raine forms a group of Jewish-American soldiers to wreak revenge on German forces. Diane Kruger plays an undercover agent on a mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich, and eventually the separate strands converge.

Cannes ain’t a party until Brangelina roll into town. I don’t believe that Ange has any films that will be screened at the film festival but it looks like Brad is happy to take up the spotlight again. After all of the big award nominations he received last year for his work in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (and his eventual disappointment at losing every single one of those nominations), I suspect he is anxious to get back into contention for new awards. Will Inglourious Basterds be the film that will eventually lead to Oscar gold? I doubt it … but at least Brad looks like he’s having fun pretending.

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