The new film about Paris Fashion Week with Angelina Jolie and Louis Garell It is titled Couture and will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival

It is probably the most unexpected (and irresistible) couple you didn’t know you needed. And, above all, one that will be hard to live without from now on. Angelina Jolie and Louis Garrel are the stars of Couture, the upcoming film by director Alice Winocour, who returns behind the camera after 2019’s Proxima with Eva Green and 2022’s Revoir Paris with Virginie Efira and Benoît Magimel. Set during Paris Fashion Week, Winocour weaves together the lives of three women, each with their own anxieties and secrets. The protagonist’s life in the film is upended after the painful discovery of breast cancer—a subject Jolie is particularly sensitive to, having undergone a preventive mastectomy after discovering she was a carrier of the BRCA1 gene, which increases the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. Maxime thus faces the frantic Parisian event from backstage, alongside model Ada, played by Anyier Anei, and makeup artist Angèle, portrayed by Ella Rumpf, known for Raw and Marguerite’s Theorem. Jolie, fresh from her role as opera singer Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s biopic Maria, plays director Maxine, a fitting role given the star’s parallel career. In 2024, she also promoted her sixth directorial work, Without Blood, an adaptation of the novel by Italian author Alessandro Baricco.

Louis Garrel, recently in the spotlight for his breakup after a decade-long relationship with actress and model Laetitia Casta, plays a longtime colleague of the protagonist in Couture. This is not the first time the actor has appeared in a project centered on the world of haute couture. In 2014, he played Jacques de Bascher in Bertrand Bonello’s biopic Saint Laurent, alongside Gaspard Ulliel as the famous French designer. Since 2024, Garrel has also been one of the male faces of Dior, and last June he attended the debut show of the brand’s new creative director Jonathan Anderson, alongside colleagues such as Robert Pattinson and Daniel Craig. Director Winocour also wrote the screenplay for Couture, having first gained recognition in 2015 for her work on Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang, which won her the César Award for Best Original Screenplay the following year. The premiere of her new film is scheduled for September 7, at the 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.