Alice Winocour, Anyier Anei, Angelina Jolie, Louis Garrel and Ella Rumpf at the premiere of the film "Couture" in Paris, on February 9, 2026. YEHIEL CHEKROUNE/BESTIMAGE
Angelina Jolie moved from one suite to another at Le Bristol, as if she were at home in this Parisian luxury hotel a stone's throw from the Elysée Palace, the seat of the French presidency. She greeted Alice Winocour, the French director who cast her in Couture, with a warm hug. She kissed the cheek of Charles Gillibert, the producer of this drama that weaves together the heartbreaks of the fashion world with those of exile and cancer, set in the cosmopolitan Paris of fashion week.
The American star had nothing but kind words for her adopted homeland: "I find it very enriching as an artist and as a woman to be in France," confided the actress, who took French lessons to perfect some of her lines. She quickly summed up her French connections in a few words: her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who taught her "snippets of French" during childhood; her ex-husband, Brad Pitt, to whom she "left" a château in the south of France; and the birth of her twins in Nice. She preferred to focus on what truly matters to her: "I feel that more of myself comes out here. The conversations seem deeper and more enriching to me."
