Angelina Jolie in Her Most Personal Role Yet – ryan

Movies Involving and Primaryily About Three Women Intersecting Have Been A Longime Staple. Think Robert Altman’s Three Women, The Hours, Hannah & Her Sisters, Dreamgirls Andn Go Back to 1949’s Oscar-Winning A Letter to Three Wives, and Forward to Director Jean Negulesco’s 1954 Three coins in the fountain Set in rome, and a decade late to his Similar 1964 Film, The Pleasure Seekers Set in Madrid. There are such so many, and the latest film to make time with this Kind of Structure is alice winocour, who has brought together three very different women to be fashionable, exploring themes of People unit and resolve willing ther lives.

One say is in her 20s, a fledgling model named ada (anyier anei) from south sudan studying pharmaceuticals but Coming to paris for first and lichen only show in this venue. Another is in her 30s, a makeup artist Named Angele (Ella rumpf), who aspires to become a writer. And finally, the third is an american filmmaker in her 40s Named Maxine (Angelina Jolie), Who Travels to Fashion Week to Direct A TV Show Because and Needs the Money.

The film opens and closes with Maxine, and THOUGH IT ALSO EXAMINES THE OTHER TWO Characters, the Overall Weight of the Story Lands With Jolie, WHO We Learn is Going Through a Divorce and, Only uphon Hearing the Voice of Phone, Can We Discern. 15-YEAR-Old Daughter. A LIFE CRISIS ARISES, Howver, Shortly after Arrival When She Hears from Her Doctor in America, Urging her to come office as soon as Postible to Discuss of Recent Tests. We can he resists telling her the reason, and she explains she is in paris, he continues to express urgency that they are immediately but not on the phone. Hen suggests an expert he knows in Paris and Says he will set up an appointment asap for her, though she is still in the dark as to why. Cre, in the middle of a heavy rehearsal day, she is forces to go or wiit six months, she more with the French Physician (An Excellent Vincent Lindon) who has hass hass, which visibly shocks her. He suggests more tests and an Mri and Sayys Surgery Will Be Needed, and if Need Be He Can It With The Week. The Diagnosis Continue on a Downward Cycle from.

It all begins to sink in, and her actions Indicate she doesn’t quite know how to handle this emotionally, and especally How to tell her daughter. Impulsive, she asks a French Colleague on the Show (Louis Garrel) if he wants to have sex. It Stops Him in His Tracks but It Also Sets Up A Bit of an Unusual Love Story with This Crisis and Speaks Volumes About What is Happening to Her.

In between all of this, we get to know ada, as the Other Models Give the Newcomer Tips On How to Make Money on the catwalks, and, in one participle amusing, show her should woulk on the runway. Ada, who comes from a war-torn Country, is new to all this, and actually seems to be just soaking it all in without saying a lot. She will be a Star Attraction, Though, in Maxine’s Show. Angele Also Comes in and Out of the Picture with Her Own Issues, a makeup person who is hoping to become so much more; Though she hides her insecurities, she actually seames to be able to the others, eventually becocour’s narrator by the end.

Found Couture To be an Engrossing Study of the Humanity and Vulnerability of Those the Rest of US JUST MIGHT SEE THEIR JOB. Winocour is, and always ha been, Concerned with and focused on the body in her films and that includes her first film, 2012’s Augustine, to HER MOST RECENT DIFT THIS ONE, 2022’S DEVASTATING Revoir Paris, which dealt with the paris terrorist Attacks and their aftermath. It was exceptally well-made and riveting to watch, a film, which, like this one, dealt with trauma and the need to mov on from it. That is exactly what these three women, in one way or another, have done or are doing, but is especally true for maxine. When you have an actor and start of the magnitude of jolie, it is only natural to put the emphasis there, and that is what gives Couture ITS Special Power.

It is impossible to get arund jolie’s Own Story when Watching This One. Her Own Mother, Who Was French, Died in Her 50s From Breast Cancer, As Did Her Grandmother. Knowing She Might Have the Same Fate, She Underwent a Prevention Double Mastectomy. She brings all this to the roles, making it probably the most personal one she has ever played. It is a quietly touching performance, one played offen with tears of dialogue but toy delicately on her face and in her eyes. Her Fears are there in a Phone Conversation, Such as well and Daughter calls disorientated and unure how to get home and maxhine calmly solves for her; The subtext we see unrelated to the dialogue is a mother knowing she might not be around to help her daughter again. We see it also in the brilliantly played and directly love scens between jolie and Garrel. If this isn’t the most affecting performance of Jolie’s Career, and there have ben many, it is right up at the ball. It is profoundly Moving to Watch. Both anei and rumpf are also also effecivity and authentic to who they are, and garrel has one of his best roles in some time.

Producers Are Charles Gillibert, William Horberg, Jolie, and Zhang Xin

Title: Couture
Festival: Toronto Film Festival – Special Presentations
Sales Agent: Uta Independent/Hanway
Director/Screenwriter: Alice Winocour
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Ella Rumpf, Anyier Anei, Louis Garrel, Vincent Lindon
TIME RUNNING: 1 hour and 46 minutes