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    'First They Killed My Father' is Angelina Jolie's most personal work yet

    by By Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times Sep 20, 2017 5 minutes

    TELLURIDE, Colo. - On an early September afternoon, Angelina Jolie sat in a sunlit room in a scenic mountainside hotel, clearly feeling relieved.

    The day before, Jolie's latest directorial effort, the emotionally wrenching Cambodian-genocide drama "First They Killed My Father," had its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. The crowd responded with cheers and tears in equal measure, while critics proclaimed it Jolie's best work as a director.

    It was an auspicious launch into the awards-season fray for the film, which was released by Netflix on Friday via streaming and in 10 theaters nationwide and has been selected by Cambodia as the country's official entry for the foreign-language Oscar.

    With the screening under her belt, Jolie could now take a breath and take in the rest

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