Overview

• Jolie arrived by private jet from London to Biarritz and slipped into the Hotel María Cristina via a service entrance before the evening events.
• On the Kursaal red carpet she greeted fans, then broke from the schedule to return and meet more admirers despite heavy rain.
• At a packed press conference she said, “I love my country, but I don’t recognize it right now,” citing concern over divisions and limits on personal freedoms.
• She grew emotional recalling her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, noting she wore her mother’s necklace in the film and said it holds part of her ashes.
• Festival organizers compressed her commitments into roughly 30 hours as she presented ‘Couture’ in Official Section, the Alice Winocour drama co-starring Louis Garrel about a director confronting a breast-cancer diagnosis.