New BY THE SEA Featurette Experience the new BY THE SEA featurette! The film, written and directed by Angelina Jolie (Unbroken, In the Land of Blood and Honey), stars Jolie, Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, and Niels Arestrup. BY THE SEA will be released in theaters on November 13. Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.