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Claire Oakley: ‘The whole film is about describing the feelings of this young woman’

by Elena Lazic

How a fascination with female desire inspired the first-time director of the excellent Make Up.
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Eliza Hittman: ‘I sat down with abortion providers to try to understand the story I wanted to tell’

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The writer/​director on how first-hand research informed her ​‘poetic odyssey’, Never Rarely Sometimes Always.
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Kitty Green on why The Assistant goes way beyond Weinstein

by Beth Webb

The American filmmaker’s debut narrative feature is the perfect drama for the post #MeToo era.
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Haifaa Al Mansour: ‘It’s amazing to shape art in Saudi Arabia’

by Fatima Sheriff

The Saudi Arabian iconoclast details the tribulations of making The Perfect Candidate.
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Levan Akin: ‘A lot of people in Georgia are living secret lives’

by Jack King

The director of And Then We Danced discusses his film’s impact on the LGBT+ community in Georgia and beyond.
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Richard Stanley: ‘I got a phone call at 3am from a guy claiming to be Nic Cage’

by Matt Thrift

The cult director discusses his long-awaited return to mainstream filmmaking with Color Out of Space.
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Céline Sciamma: ‘I had a desire to show the birth of longing’

by Elena Lazic

The director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire discusses her monument to female artists and their intense gaze.
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Jessica Hausner: ‘Happiness is overrated’

by Adam Woodward

The Lourdes and Amour Fou filmmaker on her unsettling English-language debut, Little Joe.
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Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant on Portrait of a Lady on Fire

by Elena Lazic

The co-stars of Céline Sciamma’s sumptuous period romance discuss the intimate – and political – nature of the film.
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Bong Joon-ho: ‘There is no bunker in my house’

by Prahlad Srihari

The South Korean master dissects his deliciously dark capitalist satire, Parasite.