PARIS – As the fashion world prepares for a slew of designer debuts this season, women’s voices still struggle to be heard.

Director Alice Winocour aims to redress that imbalance with her film “Couture,” due to premiere Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival . Starring Angelina Jolie and set during Paris Fashion Week, it trains the spotlight on three women working in the shadows of the fashion industry: an indie filmmaker, a model and a makeup artist.

Jolie, switching seamlessly between English and French, plays Maxine Walker, a director of low-budget horror movies who’s hired to shoot a short film for a French fashion house, but finds out during the trip that she has breast cancer. The film explores how the characters’ stories intersect as they each seek to overcome

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