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Kitty Grady

Kitty Grady is the digital editor of A Rabbit's Foot

“Let’s see what is erotic” : Audrey Diwan on creating Emmanuelle

Charles Finch celebrates Jonathan Becker’s ‘Lost time’ in London 

At their annual Frieze dinner, Charles Finch and Bettina Korek honour Maja Hoffmann

Coralie Fargeat: “I give birth through my art”

Levan Akin: “Earnestness is something I miss in film”

The Swedish director discusses Crossing, an undulating tale of a retired Georgian woman’s search for her trans niece in Istanbul.

11 books film lovers should read this summer

From a tome on director’s clothing, an academic masterpiece on Yasujiro Ozu and soon-to-be adapted novels, here are the books you should read this summer.

Jeanne Moreau and the new Femme Fatale

One of the most significant actors in French film history, Jeanne Moreau made her name playing alluring but troubled heroines. Whilst the term femme fatale followed Moreau to the grave, Kitty Grady explores how Moreau brought a more nuanced definition to the age-old archetype, one that coincided with the birth of the French New Wave.

Down and out with Ottessa Moshfegh

While defined by its relationship to disgust, Ottessa Moshfegh’s writing is also informed by kitschier genres of commercial culture. Kitty Grady caught up with the My Year of Rest and Relaxation author in Paris to talk Yorgos Lanthimos, stand-up comedy, and why she wants to write a book about Gordon Ramsay. 

Cannes 2024: Emilia Perez review—an edgy musical of style and substance

Jacques Audiard’s subversive musical is deservedly pegged to win the Palme d’Or.

With The Sweet East, Sean Price Williams and Nick Pinkerton are declaring independence

‘The Sweet East’ portrays a young woman’s maiden voyage through American subcultures. Director and screenwriter Sean Price Williams and Nick Pinkerton discuss road movies, feline characters and creating bad-object movies.

Benoît Delhomme on Mother’s Instinct: “I projected myself as an anxious father”

The cinematographer Benoît Delhomme discusses his directorial debut, Mother’s Instinct, a psychological thriller set in the 1960s starring Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway. Featuring exclusive illustrations by Benoît Delhomme.

Wandering womb: the exquisite corpse of Bella Baxter

Adapted for screen by Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things, Alasdair Gray’s 1992 steampunk novel, references La Salpêtrière, the famous hysteria hospital of late 19th century Paris. Does its heroine Bella Baxter, a 25 year-old woman with the brain of a baby, epitomise the notion of the ‘wandering womb’?

Jeff Wall: “Photography can only be done specifically – never in general”

The Canadian photographer discusses Ingmar Bergman, the importance of truth to photography and why he doesn’t have to ‘hunt’ for pictures.

On death and stillness: Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise

“What if we just kept driving?” Ridley Scott’s 1991 road movie Thelma & Louise is best known for its final shot—a still of the eponymous heroines shooting over the Grand Canyon. A feminist classic celebrating life, love and friendship, as Kitty Grady explores, death and stillness are only ever just around the corner.