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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 16: Angelina Jolie arrives at a screening of "Couture" at The Whitby Hotel on June 16, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by James Devaney/GC Images)

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Wednesday, June 17, 2026





In “Couture,” Angelina Jolie plays Maxine, a low-budget horror movie director juggling a film commission from a French luxury fashion house and being a single mother in the midst of a divorce when she receives a devastating breast cancer diagnosis.

“Couture” writer and director Alice Winocour says she wrote the French and English language drama with the Oscar-winner in mind.

“I needed someone special, someone that would have a special connection with the story,” Winocour says. “Angelina has a lot in common with the character. She’s also a director and she has been through this — not cancer — but everyone knows her story. So I felt like it’s for her.”

“Also what I liked with Angelina was that she had this kind of punk spirit and punk energy and raw energy, and it’s really what I wanted for the film,” Winocour says.

I’m on a Zoom with Winocour and Jolie.

I ask Jolie if she considers herself punk. “I think I’m more punk now,” she says. “Yes, it has an energy, but it’s also kind of the counter movement to a lot of what’s happening. So even sometimes my privacy or not completely being sucked into a lot of things or movements — sometimes the doing less, or being private, when the world is the way it is right now, that is an opposite.”

“I think my fighting spirit is finally back,” she says. “I lost it for a bit. I got kind of taken down a little bit and it’s coming back in large part thanks to my children, who are now older, and encouraging it.”

“My kids are almost all 18, so now they want to see me traveling the world, they want me to get out and do things. They know me more than anybody, and they still like me, which says a lot. I think they’re very encouraging of me kind of getting back to aspects of myself that maybe I hadn’t felt as free to do.”

“I had kind of quit acting before my divorce,” she says. “I was focusing on directing, and I thought I’d be doing my international work. But then suddenly the only way to be home more and for short periods of time being away or to make a good amount of money, was to go back to acting. I was only taking things that were short or close by or I could take [my children].”

“Couture” is very much an ensemble co-starring Ella Rumpf as a makeup artist and aspiring writer, and South Sudanese model Anyier Anei as a new model who travels to Paris for the first time and is the star of Maxine’s fashion film. All three women find themselves meeting each other at pivotal and very vulnerable times in their lives. “We are stronger together,” Winocour says. “The film is about also the solidarity and that woman who bare scars, sometimes you tell you the most personal thing you have to a stranger … What we wanted to show was this fragile moment between human beings.”

The original title of the film was “Ride or Die,” Winocour says. “It’s about the spirit of survival,” she says. “The world is so difficult. It’s like, let’s celebrate life together. We see all the wounds behind the perfect images, but it’s all those people who are connecting to each other and sharing things together.”

In one scene, a doctor outlines Maxine’s incision lines with red ink on her bare chest ahead of undergoing a double mastectomy. Jolie said Vincent Lindon, who plays the physician, was so convincing she felt as if he was with a real doctor: “As a patient, as a woman, I wanted to lean on him and ask him, ‘Am I going to be OK?’”

The scene brought back memories of her own health journey. “It’s very sobering in realizing – like the [doctor] says in the film — we’re all going to die, we’re all not here forever,” Jolie says. “I think having lost my mom young and never met my grandmother, I have never lived feeling like I’m going to have a long life. I’m already past the age when my mother was diagnosed. I may struggle from almost feeling like I can’t live in the moment because I feel like I have to push and rush because time’s running out.”

She continues, “I raise my kids almost preparing them for my absence and not as much preparing to be a grandmother,” she continues. “That’s what happens when you consider death as a reality.”

“Couture” is in theaters June 26.




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Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Angelina Jolie's new movie Couture is a deeply personal one for the Oscar winner.

In the film written and directed by Alice Winocour, Jolie, 51, plays Maxine, an American film director who's in Europe filming a segment for a fashion show when she's diagnosed with breast cancer.

Jolie's own mother Marcheline Bertrand, died of ovarian and breast cancer in 2007. Jolie herself revealed in 2013 she had a double mastectomy after testing positive for the “faulty” BRCA1 gene, increasing her chances of developing breast cancer by 87 percent.

Couture — which also features intersecting storylines involving young model and immigrant Ada (Anyier Anei) and makeup artist Angèle (Ella Rumpf) — "is a beautifully written piece about women from different countries," Jolie tells PEOPLE.

Jolie, who plays a woman diagnosed with cancer in the film, hosted a dinner and discussion at Atelier Jolie in N.Y.C. on June 15

"It has something to say that I thought could be useful to people, showing how everyone is dealing with things that make us very human, and that if we can figure out how to live through challenges by leaning on each other and having more empathy towards one another, the better and less alone we will be," she adds.

In that spirit of community, Jolie hosted an intimate dinner — catered by the immigrant and refugee chefs of Eat Offbeat — on Monday, June 15, in N.Y.C., where guests honored the strength of cancer survivors. The 20 invitees who gathered at Atelier Jolie, the actress's downtown creative collective, included Columbia University's Dr. Rita Charon, a general internist and literary scholar, as well as Winocour.

"Alice is a wonderful director and approaches the stories of the women in Couture with sensitivity and hope. The film is not about an end for my character but rather about a renewed desire to live life until your last breath which particularly resonates with me at this time in my life," Jolie adds.

"I am not sure I was strong enough even five years ago to do this. To be open and trusting to share and be vulnerable again," says the mother of six.

"Things happen in life that take us off path. We lose ourselves and we feel isolated. I would have given anything to have my mother alive to be there for her grandchildren," she says.

Jolie debuted Couture at the Toronto International Film Festival last September and spoke about her connection to the film. While making the movie, “I felt very vulnerable,” she told Variety at the time.

“I feel like it's such a personal film,” continued Jolie, who wore one of her late mom's necklaces while making the movie. “It felt so private that in my mind, it's probably the one film that doesn't feel like a film.”
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Angelina Jolie discusses her decision to pose nude on the cover of "Time" magazine after her double mastectomy

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Monday, September 22, 2025








Press Conference "Couture" (O.S.) 2025



Interviews with Alice Winocour and Louis Garrel ''Couture'' (O.S.) 2025


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Sunday, September 21, 2025






SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN - SEPTEMBER 21: Angelina Jolie attends the "Couture" press conference during the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival at Kursaal Palace on September 21, 2025 in San Sebastian, Spain. (Photo by Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)










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Monday, September 8, 2025


World Class Canada & Audi Hosted Couture Cast Party At Vinny On Day 4, Toronto International Film Festival, 2025

TORONTO, ONTARIO - SEPTEMBER 07: Angelina Jolie attends the Couture premiere party hosted by World Class Canada and Audi at Vinny during the Toronto International Film Festival on September 07, 2025 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Sonia Recchia/Getty Images for World Class Canada & Audi)

TORONTO, ONTARIO - SEPTEMBER 07: Alice Winocour, Angelina Jolie and Zhang Xin attend the Couture premiere party hosted by World Class Canada and Audi at Vinny during the Toronto International Film Festival on September 07, 2025 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Sonia Recchia/Getty Images for World Class Canada & Audi)
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Los Angeles Times
Director Alice Winocour and cast Angelina Jolie, Ella Rumpf and Anyier Anei discuss their film, “Couture,” which is playing at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival at the Los Angeles Times Studio at RBC House.



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(L/R) French producer Charles Gillibert, Chinese producer Zhang Xin, Swiss actress Ella Rumpf, South Sudanese actress Anyier Anei, French director Alice Winocour and US actress Angelina Jolie attend the world premiere of "Couture" at the Princess of Wales Theater during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 7, 2025. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP) (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)




Fans gather outside the Princess of Wales Theatre to catch a glimpse of US actress Angelina Jolie, in town for her film "Couture", during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Ontario, on September 7, 2025. (Photo by Cole BURSTON / AFP) (Photo by COLE BURSTON/AFP via Getty Images)







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