Angelina Jolie says she reflected on her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, while filming her latest Oscar contender Changeling.

Jolie, 32 — who is expected at the premiere later today at the Cannes Film Festival — plays Christine Collins whose 9-year-old son is kidnapped in this 1920s-based true story (directed by Clint Eastwood).

When police return the boy to her, Christine claims he is not her son. Trying to cover up their own mistakes, police then brand her an unfit mother and throw her in a psych ward to silence her.

"To me, she's very much like my mother [who died in January 2007]," Jolie told reporters. "My mother was very passive in many ways and very, very sweet, but when it came to her children, she was a lion.

"So in many ways, Christine reminded me of my mom, and it was a way to kind of revisit my mother after her passing and spend time with her," she said.

Being a mother herself, Jolie — who is expecting twins with beau Brad Pitt — said the film hit home.

"To lose a child: I can't imagine anything worse, especially not knowing the fate of that child."

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