Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s new film, currently being shot in Gozo, is the story of a woman caught in “an undertow of passion and rejuvenation while visiting a seaside village with her husband”, according to Entertainment Weekly.

Along with some official stills, the magazine has released By the Sea’s official synopsis.

Set in France during the mid-1970s, Jolie plays Vanessa, a former dancer, with Pitt as her husband Roland, an American writer.

As they 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/cafe-keeper (War Horse and A Prophet’s Niels Arestrup) and a hotel owner (Richard Bohringer, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover).

“I chose to set By the Sea in the 1970s not only because it is a colourful and alluring era, but because it removes many of the distractions of contemporary life and allows the focus to remain squarely on the emotions that the characters experience in their journey,” Jolie said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly.

Meanwhile, a humorous Facebook page called Brangelina in Gozo featuring Photoshopped images of the celebrity couple in various Maltese and Gozitan landmarks has garnered more than 5,000 likes.