Angelina Jolie leads a group of female characters in writer-director Alice Winocur’s Couture, a broad and intimate fashion-set story of broken bodies and spirits. It feels like the actress is back to her roots for the first time in a long time.

In the film, which just screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, Jolie stars as Maxine, a horror director who takes a job in Paris directing a fashion art piece to be used in an upcoming runway collection, all while navigating divorce proceedings.

Upon arrival, she is upended by receiving a breast cancer diagnosis. Professionally and personally, Maxine’s convictions are constantly challenged by men–her ex-husband, her doctor (Vincent Lindon), and a coworker (Louis Garrel) with whom she begins a fumbling romantic tryst. And perhaps mos

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