Alice Winocour’s captivating fashion drama “Couture” is a quiet, observational picture about creative women finding solace in one another. The film stars Angelina Jolie as Maxine Walker, a film director who is making a vampire short for Paris Fashion Week when she learns that she has cancer. As she grapples with the difficult news, “Couture” also reveals the stories of two other women: nervous South Sudanese model Ada (Anyier Anei) and writerly makeup artist Angèle (Ella Rumpf), whose respective artistic struggles form a dreamlike mosaic that’s as intricate as lace.

Robert Daniels, Screen Daily