Gemma Rice

Cannes Film Festival’s 2025 red carpet: high-fashion moments and nudity bans

Ritz and glamour, elegance and class: every year the Cannes film festival offers a swish scene for iconic high-fashion moments. From May 12 to 23 this year, film stars walked the fest’s red carpet and posed at photocalls, raising the sartorial to the status of cinematic event. As ever, old...
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Posted Jun. 12, 2025

Arts

Spotlight on Ana Mendieta: Celebrating female artists

Women’s place within the art world has been – and is often thought to still be – marginal. Institutional obstacles prevent female success, male artists dominate top galleries and the art history behind these spaces consists of a very Eurocentric, very male perspectives. Pushing the fight against this historical absenting...
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Posted Feb. 24, 2025

Indian film director Payal Kapdia and her group of actors sit for a panel at a Cannes film festival press conference

Film Reviews

Blue nights, loneliness and longing in ‘All We Imagine as Light’

Gemma Rice reviews the critically acclaimed Indian drama
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Posted Feb. 7, 2025