The acclaimed film director has made a name for herself with stylish, visually rich narratives that spotlight the female perspective. She talks to Lydia Slater about her genre-spanning back catalogue

A war of nerves

SOME DAYS IT SEEMS WE LIVE IN A HORRID WORLD where most humans couldn’t give a fig about art. How many people in that world are going to care about a 65-year-old black-and-white movie—one that, for an

Whisper it — the star of Hotel Portofino isn’t that keen on Italian food…

IN AN EARLY SCENE IN LYNNE Ramsay’s brutal, beautiful Die My Love, we see Jennifer Lawrence crawling through a sunny, grassy field on all fours, low to the ground like a sultry panther, as we hear a b

Julia Ducournau’s Alpha is a shiver-inducing AIDS-adjacent drama