Overview
- Arriving from London via a private flight to Biarritz, she reached the Hotel María Cristina around 16:15 and entered through a service door as fans waited outside.
- She took to the Kursaal red carpet at roughly 18:50 in heavy rain, greeting supporters, posing for photos, and taking selfies before the screening.
- After the photocall she asked to return to the carpet to acknowledge the crowd again, walking back toward the Kursaal bridge and shaking hands despite the weather.
- At the press conference she became visibly emotional recalling her mother and referenced her 2013 preventive double mastectomy and BRCA1 status.
- ‘Couture,’ directed by Alice Winocour, is in the festival’s Sección Oficial, with Jolie starring and producing; the festival director praised her effort to attend, and she later told local reporters it was “una noche preciosa” while remarking, “Amo a mi país, pero no lo reconozco en este momento.”