'Couture' is in theaters June 26
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- PEOPLE is debuting an exclusive clip from Angelina Jolie’s new movie Couture
- In Couture, Jolie portrays an American filmmaker who receives a breast cancer diagnosis while in Paris for Fashion Week
- Couture is in theaters June 26
Angelina Jolie is getting personal and emotional in Couture.
PEOPLE is debuting an exclusive clip from Jolie's new movie, in which she portrays Maxine, an American filmmaker whose life takes a turn when she travels to Paris during Fashion Week. As trailers for the movie have shown, Maxine's trip to Paris sees her caught between an important project she's working on, a romance with a French colleague (Louis Garrel), and a frightening breast cancer diagnosis that she receives via phone call in the middle of her workday.
"Drawn into a love story with a familiar collaborator as her path intersects with women of different ages and cultural backgrounds — all fighting to take control of their own destinies — Maxine finds herself on a deeply personal journey of self-discovery that forces her to confront the choices shaping her life," reads an official synopsis for the movie.
The film's subject matter hits home for the Oscar winner: Jolie underwent a preventive double mastectomy in 2013 because she carried the BRCA1 gene due to her family's history with the disease. Her mother Marcheline Bertrand died of ovarian and breast cancer in 2007 at 56, and Jolie's aunt and grandmother also died of the disease.
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Couture comes to theaters after it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2025. Ella Rumpf, Garance Marillier, Anyier Anei and Vincent Lindon also costar in Couture, which Jolie additionally produced. In September, the actress told Variety that she wore one of her late mother's necklaces to comfort herself during filming.
“I feel like it's such a personal film,” she said at the time. “It felt so private that in my mind, it's probably the one film that doesn't feel like a film.”
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During a Q&A for the movie at TIFF, Jolie grew emotional when she spoke to her mother's experience with cancer. She recalled Bertrand once telling her family, "All anybody ever asks me about is cancer," in response to an audience member who asked Couture's cast to share a message of "hope" for those diagnosed with the disease. "I would say, if you know someone who is going through something, ask them about everything else in their life as well, you know? They're a whole person and they're still living," she said.
Following Couture, Jolie has a number of other projects in the works, including a thriller titled Sunny and an adaptation of the Scandinavian novel Anxious People.
Couture is in theaters June 26.
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