“ Couture ” is a drama set during Paris Fashion Week, starring Angelina Jolie as a character who is fashion world-adjacent — a goth-glam director of hip indie horror films named Maxine Walker, who has come to Paris to shoot a lavish short (it features a forest fire and wolves and a model playing a fang-bearing vampire) that’s set to accompany one noteworthy fashion house’s runway show. (The house is never named, but the suggestion is that it’s Chanel.) All of which makes “Couture” sound like a backstage movie that’s shiny and glossy and combustible and hot.

Actually, though, the film is extremely neutral and low-key in that French not-a-documentary-but-it-feels-like-one style. Jolie is at the center of an ensemble piece that’s structured as a loose neorealist ramble, built around char

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