Angelina Jolie will star in Stitchesthe new film by French director Alice Winocour (See Paris again, Proxima) which will take place in the world of fashion.
The next time someone tells you around the coffee machine that French auteur cinema is boring and does not shine around the worldyou will have a few examples to take out to make him swallow his cappuccino.
The first: Jodie Foster recently filmed in France in Rebecca Zlotowski's new film (Beautiful thorn, Other people's children), Privacyfacing Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Efira, Mathieu Amalric, and Vincent Lacoste. She will play a psychiatrist convinced that her patient's death is not accidental. This is not a first for the actress who speaks French, and who had proven it in A long engagement Sunday by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, but this will be a leading role here.
The second: Angelina Jolie has just joined the next film from Alice Winocour, the director ofAugustine, Proxima et See Paris again. And this project entitled Stitches (Seams) is obviously very intriguing.
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Variety announced exclusively on November 19, 2024 that Angelina Jolie would therefore be the heroine of Stitches (Seams), whose Filming is planned for early 2025 in Paris.
Stitches will take place in the world of fashion, with Fashion Week as a backdrop. Angelina Jolie will play a directorand will be one of the female characters whose lives intersect during the event. It reminds a little Ready-to-wear (1994), one of Robert Atlman's rare bad films, but we imagine that the comparison stops at the pitch line.
The film will be filmed in French and Englishas Proxima with Eva Green, Matt Dillon and Sandra Hüller.
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For Angelina Jolie, this is a new step towards return to a certain idea of cinema. In parallel with her films as a director, notably Without Blood with Salma Hayek (which does not yet have a French release date), the actress had been relatively discreet in recent years.
Apart from the Marvel blockbuster The Eternals (2021) and the thriller Those who want my deatht (2021) went unnoticed, Angelina Jolie hasn't had – or looked for – a really good role for a long time. Until she agrees toplay Maria Callas in Mariaby Pablo Larraín. The film will be released in France on February 5, 2025 and beyond the Oscar season, it reminds us that Angelina Jolie is above all the actress ofAnatomy of a top model, A stolen life et The Exchange.
Maria could only have been a small start, all the more comfortable since Pablo Larraín took Natalie Portman (Jackie) and Kristen Stewart (Spencer) at the Oscars. But the choice of a film with Alice Winocour shows that there is a real appetite for cinema in the actress.
That said, the French director brings luck to actresses too. Eva Green was nominated for a César for best actress for Proximaand Virginie Efira won for See Paris again.
In any case, Stitches does good compared to the other projects announced with Angelina Jolie: Maleficent 3 (obviously), and the action movie Maude v Maude starring Halle Berry (described as “Bond vs. Bourne”).
