'Couture' is in theaters June 26
NEED TO KNOW
- Angelina Jolie stars as an American filmmaker in Paris who receives a breast cancer diagnosis in her new movie Couture
- Jolie has spoken about her personal connection to the movie; her mother Marcheline Bertrand died of ovarian and breast cancer in 2007 at 56
- Couture is in theaters June 26
Angelina Jolie's first movie since Maria is hitting theaters this summer.
On Wednesday, May 20, Vertical Entertainment released the trailer for Jolie's film Couture. In the film, the Oscar winner portrays an Maxine, an American filmmaker whose life takes a turn when she travels to Paris during Fashion Week. Per the trailer, Maxine finds herself caught between an important project she's working on, a romance with a Frenchman (Louis Garrel) and a devastating breast cancer diagnosis.
"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.
Couture comes to theaters after it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2025. Jolie herself 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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In September, Jolie 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. “It felt so private that in my mind, it's probably the one film that doesn't feel like a film.” During a Q&A for the movie at TIFF, Jolie grew emotional when she spoke to her mother's experience with cancer and recalled that Bertrand once told 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.
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Ella Rumpf, Garance Marillier, Anyier Anei and Vincent Lindon also costar in Couture, which Jolie produced on top of her starring role.
The actress 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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