Angelina Jolie Confirmed for San Sebastian, Co-Presenting ‘Couture’ in Main Competition

Angelina Jolie will fire up San Sebastián’s star quotient, hitting the Spanish festival to co-present French director Alice Winocour’s main competition player “Couture” on Sept. 21.

Jolie will co-present the the Paris Fashion Week drama along with co-stars Louis Garrel and Garance Marillier, also just announced, director Winocour and the already confirmed actors Anyier Anei and Ella Rumpf.

“Couture” world premiered at Toronto where the Paris Fashion Week drama drew a mixed reaction from Variety, which, however, was upbeat on Jolie’s performance as Maxine Walker, a goth-glam director of hip indie horror films named Maxine Walker, who learns during the Fashion Week that she has breast cancer.

“Jolie, drawing on a family history of cancer for which she herself underwent preventative surgeries, gives a vivid performance, endowing Maxine with cool-director verve and then a fear and sorrow we can’t help but respond to,” Variety wrote.

Variety also included “Couture” in its article,…