Vertical has set a June 26 theatrical release for “Couture,” the new drama from Alice Winocour, with Angelina Jolie starring as an American filmmaker pulled into a personal reckoning against the churn of Paris Fashion Week.
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The film premiered last year at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it screened in Special Presentations, and was later acquired by Vertical for North American release. Jolie plays Maxine, an American director who arrives in Paris during Fashion Week and finds her life intersecting with women of different ages and backgrounds, each trying to wrest control over her own future. As Maxine is drawn into a love story with a familiar collaborator, the trip becomes a deeper self-examination, forcing her to confront the decisions shaping her life (read our review).
Written and directed by Winocour, whose previous films include “Proxima” and “Paris Memories,” “Couture” brings Jolie back to a more intimate mode after “Maria,” with the project built around glamour, labor, illness, romance, and the private lives unfolding behind a public spectacle. The official synopsis positions the film around women moving through different pressures and stages of life, with Paris Fashion Week functioning as the glossy backdrop for something more internal and bruised.
Louis Garrel, Ella Rumpf, Garance Marillier, Anyier Anei, and Vincent Lindon co-star. The film is produced by Charles Gillibert, Zhang Xin, William Horberg, and Jolie. Rotten Tomatoes currently lists the film’s theatrical release date as June 26, with a runtime of one hour and 44 minutes.
For Winocour, “Couture” continues a run of female-centered dramas built around trauma, recovery, and interior survival. “Proxima” followed an astronaut preparing to leave her daughter behind for a space mission, while “Paris Memories” centered on a woman rebuilding herself after surviving a terrorist attack. “Couture” shifts that interest to Paris’ fashion world, where image and control become harder to separate from the private fractures underneath.
“Couture” opens in theaters June 26 via Vertical.
