Overview

• Jolie presented Couture in San Sebastián’s main competition with director Alice Winocour and co-stars including Louis Garrel, Anyier Anei, Garance Marillier and Ella Rumpf.
• At a packed press conference, she said, “I love my country, but I don’t recognize it right now,” noting concerns about limits on personal expression and freedoms.
• She became emotional recalling her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, and referenced her past double mastectomy and oophorectomy after testing positive for a BRCA1 mutation.
• Despite Europe-wide air disruptions, she flew by private jet from London Biggin Hill to Biarritz, entered the Hotel María Cristina through a service door, and kept a compressed festival schedule.
• In heavy rain, she greeted fans on the Kursaal red carpet, posed for photos, then returned unexpectedly to the line to take selfies and shake hands.