Angelina Jolie’s Couture Heads to Paris With Teeth

Angelina Jolie’s – Angelina Jolie stars in Couture, a new fashion drama from Alice Winocour that arrives in U.S. theaters on June 26. The film follows Maxine, an American filmmaker directing Fashion Week coverage in Paris, as her path collides with other women facing the industr

By the time Angelina Jolie’s Maxine steps into Paris, the assignment feels like survival.

Couture, directed by Alice Winocour, is set for a June 26 U.S. theatrical release. and a newly arrived trailer is built around one promise: Fashion Week isn’t just beautiful from the outside. Maxine’s job is to direct the video that will kick off the event—capturing the styles. hopes. and dreams she says will flourish under the Paris lights. But the trailer makes clear she doesn’t exactly romanticize the industry. For her, fashion is also a lucrative opening, at a moment when money matters.

Then the itinerary fractures. In the middle of the bustle, Maxine receives a serious medical diagnosis. The news makes her question her future, her family, and whether the choices that brought her here have somehow led to this moment.

Winocour’s film isn’t only about one woman’s crisis. It moves through Maxine’s days at Fashion Week alongside other women trying to carve out their own destinies in a cutthroat world where elegance comes with constant decisions—often small, sometimes life-changing.

There’s Ada (Anyier Anei), a young pharmacy student who was discovered as a model in Nairobi and handed the opportunity of a lifetime. In Paris, she’s not just learning how the industry works—she’s learning how it feels to live inside its pressures, including the ridicule she takes from colleagues.

Another companion in Maxine’s orbit is Angèle (Ella Rumpf). a veteran makeup artist who turns her years of experience into a work of fiction that nobody seems to quite understand. Her presence adds another layer to the film’s pulse: the sense that talent alone isn’t protection. especially when the people around you refuse to see what you’re trying to build.

The trailer also tees up the film’s emotional through-line, even as it keeps the focus on craft and momentum. Maxine is in Paris to direct Fashion Week’s opening video, but the story’s real hook is what happens when work stops being enough.

One month before release, the film is arriving with a pedigree and a complicated critical reception. Couture premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. Winocour wrote and directed the project and returned to TIFF after debuting her previous effort. Paris Memories. at the festival in 2022.

The film stars Oscar winner Angelina Jolie as Maxine, and the French production includes Louis Garrel, Garance Marillier, and Vincent Lindon. Winocour also serves as writer-director, with Jolie helping to produce alongside Charles Gillibert, Zhang Xin, and William Horberg.

Not every critic was fully sold on Couture’s deep-cutting look at high fashion. even with the talent in front of and behind the camera. The film currently holds a 59% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Still, Jolie’s emotionally complex performance as Maxine has earned high praise across the board for helping ground the story.

Couture—where the runway’s glamour gives way to diagnosis, doubt, and the price of ambition—hits theaters on June 26, 2026. The runtime is 106 minutes.

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