Vanity Fair October Issue

Photograph by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.

Over dinner in Malta, Angelina Jolie—femme fatale, Earth Mother, and activist—tells Rich Cohen about her latest roles: debut director and screenwriter. With a wrenching tale of love and war, Jolie boldly steps behind the camera and into the Balkans of the early 1990s. Photographs by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.