Overview
- Jolie attended a New York screening and promotional events on Wednesday, June 17, as Vertical prepares Couture for a U.S. theatrical release on June 26.
- In the film Jolie plays Maxine, an American film director who is diagnosed with breast cancer while working in Europe and whose story crosses with two other women.
- Jolie has tied the role to her own history, citing her mother Marcheline Bertrand’s death from cancer in 2007 and her 2013 preventive double mastectomy after testing positive for the BRCA1 gene.
- Director Alice Winocour praised Jolie’s immersion in the part, noting she learned French for the role, and co-stars include Anyier Anei and Ella Rumpf.
- Early festival and European reviews have been mixed, with aggregate scores around the mid-50s to high-50s, a variable that distributors will watch as the film opens in North America.