Somewhere amidst raising countless kids and attending to the demands of being a giant star, Angelina Jolie found the time to write and direct her first movie, which was nominated at this year’s Golden Globe Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category (it lost to A Separation). Set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War in the early 1990s, In the Land of Blood and Honey tells the story of Danijel (Goran Kostic) and Ajla (Zana Marjanovic), new lovers torn apart by the hostilities who find themselves struggling to keep their love, or even just the idea of it, alive despite being on different sides of the conflict. Jolie shows promise as a filmmaker, but she also shows us so much atrocity that at times the film is just relentless and borderline preachy.