22/11/2024 - Angelina Jolie, Ella Rumpf, Louis Garrel, Anyier Anei, Garance Marillier and Finnegan Oldfield are all starring in this CG Cinema production sold by Hanway Films

Actress Angelina Jolie at this year's Venice Film Festival (© Fabrizio de Gennaro/Cineuropa)

Filming is in full swing on Alice Winocour’s Couture, which is the filmmaker’s 5th feature after Augustine [+see also:
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film profile] (screened in Cannes’ Critics’ Week 2012), Maryland [+see also:
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interview: Alice Winocour
film profile] (unveiled on the Croisette in 2015, in the Un Certain Regard section), Proxima [+see also:
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interview: Alice Winocour
film profile] (awarded a Special Mention in Toronto’s Platform competition and the Special Jury Prize in San Sebastian 2019) and Paris Memories [+see also:
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interview: Alice Winocour
film profile] (discovered in the 2022 Directors’ Fortnight, nominated for 2023’s Best Film Lumière, and the reason for Virginie Efira’s Best Actress César that same year).

Stealing focus in the cast is American talent Angelina Jolie (awarded the Best Supporting Role Oscar in 2000, nominated for Best Actress in 2009, and recently well-received in Maria [+see also:
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interview: Anna Novion
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Q&A: Michel Hazanavicius
film profile], and a further four times since 2015 in the Best Supporting Role category; hitting French cinemas on 11 December in Saint-Ex [+see also:
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interview: Julia Ducournau
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interview: Akaki Popkhadze
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Written by the director, the story revolves around Maxine, an American filmmaker embarking on a life and death journey as she arrives in Paris for Fashion Week, where her life will collide with those of two other women.

Produced by Charles Gillibert for CG Cinema in association with Zhang Xin and William Horberg of New York firm Closer Media, Couture is currently being shot in Paris (until January at least), with André Chémétoff (of The World to Come and the series Euphoria) heading up photography. World sales are steered by Hanway Films and distribution in French cinemas by Pathé.

For the record, CG Cinema’s current activities include co-producing Resurrection by Chinese director Bi Gan (on which filming is due to wrap) and three tantalising titles currently in post-production: Father, Mother, Sister, Brother by Jim Jarmusch, La disparition by Kirill Serebrennikov and The Chronology of Water by Kristen Stewart.

(Translated from French)