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Angelina Jolie Stars in Alice Winocour’s 'Couture' as Trailer Reveals Breast Cancer Story

Jolie’s public health history gives the role extra resonance as an intimate study of illness and agency.

Overview

  • The film’s first trailer, released Wednesday, May 20, places Jolie’s emotionally charged turn at the center of a story about a filmmaker confronting a breast cancer diagnosis.
  • Vertical has scheduled a North American theatrical release for Couture on June 26, following the film’s premiere in TIFF’s Special Presentations program in 2025 and its subsequent acquisition by the distributor.
  • Alice Winocour wrote and directed the film, which uses Paris Fashion Week as a glossy backdrop for a private, interior drama about illness, labor, romance, and women reclaiming control over their lives.
  • The cast includes Louis Garrel, Ella Rumpf, Garance Marillier, Anyier Anei, and Vincent Lindon, and producers listed on the project include Charles Gillibert, Zhang Xin, William Horberg, and Jolie herself.
  • Coverage notes the role’s personal resonance because Jolie publicly disclosed a preventive double mastectomy in 2013, and critics frame Couture as a quieter, female-centered follow-up to Winocour’s earlier films about trauma and recovery.