“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)…
When Michaela Coel headed to the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival to promote her latest film—Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers—she wanted to use her red carpet fashion to make a statement. “Sudanese women have been on the frontlines of every revolution in Sudan—2019 was even called a women’s revolution. I’m inspired by their resilience and determination,…
Movies involving and primarily about three women intersecting have been a longtime staple. Think Robert Altman’s Three Women, The Hours, Hannah & Her Sisters, Dreamgirls and then 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…
Angelina Jolie admits she was “nervous” filming “Couture.” The Oscar winner stars in writer-director Alice Winocour’s French and English language ensemble as Maxine Walker, a director of low-budget horror movies who is commissioned by a French fashion house to direct a film for its Paris Fashion Week runway show. As Maxine balances work, motherhood and…
Any indie film producer can find themselves in the eye of a culture-war storm — but Daniel Bekerman got blown off course by the most powerful man on Earth. The founder of Scythia Films, a Canadian indie studio, recalls a valuable lesson learned when lawyers for Donald Trump began sending cease-and-desist letters in an effort…