Couture

Like a perfectly tailored garment, beauty lies in the details as Alice Winocour directs Angelina Jolie in a delicate drama set in the Paris fashion world.

A horror film director tasked with shooting a promotional video for a fashion show simultaneously receives a cancer diagnosis. A young woman from Kenya arrives in Paris for her first major modeling job, a make-up artist dreams of becoming a writer, and a seamstress sews her very first dress. Following the festival successes Proxima and Paris Memories, Alice Winocour returns to Gothenburg. This time, she weaves together the threads of four women’s lives who, during Paris Fashion Week, all find themselves at a crossroads, crafting a story where great ambition collides with the fragility of life.

• Annie Karlsson