Angelina Jolie on Her Kids ‘Encouraging’ Her to ‘Get Out and Do Things’: ‘My Fighting Spirit Is Finally Back’

The actress delivers yet another powerful performance, this time as a horror movie director facing a devastating health crisis in 'Couture.'

By Marc Malkin

Marc Malkin

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In “Couture,” Angelina Jolie plays Maxine, a low-budget horror movie director juggling a film commission from a French luxury fashion house and being a single mother in the midst of a divorce when she receives a devastating breast cancer diagnosis.

“Couture” writer and director Alice Winocour says she wrote the French and English language drama with the Oscar-winner in mind.

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