A Rabbit's Foot

5 days ago | a-rabbitsfoot.com | Kitty Grady

From Mulholland Drive to Céline and Julie Go Boating, ‘persona swap’ is an elusive movie trope in which two (female) individuals exchange lives. About much more than just swapping clothes, they create a transgressive third space where identity is lost and lives intimately intermingle. It’s the golden age of the doppelganger. From lookalike contests to #seekingsame, we’re slipping into Same Girl Summer as effortlessly as our on-screen idols shift sexily, surreptitiously between identities.

2 weeks ago | a-rabbitsfoot.com | Fatima Khan

In American Gigolo (1980), Richard Gere’s Julian Kay and Lauren Hutton’s Michelle weren’t just characters; they were style blueprints. In this essay, stylist Olivia Pezzente revisits a cinematic moment when fashion didn’t chase trends, when a red Bottega clutch could speak volumes, and style had the power to seduce without explanation. In a culture saturated with content, speed and influencers, has costume design lost its grip on our imagination?

Mar 20, 2025 | a-rabbitsfoot.com | Kitty Grady

“Our innocent English lessons together were often tainted by the chokehold of incel language, undetected by their parents and most certainly unshakeable by their teachers.” The film critic and teacher Jannat Suleman reflects on Adolescence, the four-part Netflix series about a young boy who is arrested for the brutal murder of his female classmate.

Dec 1, 2024 | a-rabbitsfoot.com | Kitty Grady |Lucy Davies |Chris Cotonou |Tobias Grey

Rungano Nyoni discsusses the origins and inspirations of her second feature, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, which took home the prize for Best Film in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. “Film is about making things tangible, right? Like how do you deal with your past? Why do you stumble across it on a dark road?” The Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni is talking to me about the opening sequence of her second feature On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.

Nov 11, 2024 | a-rabbitsfoot.com | Avanish CHANDRASEKARAN |Lucy Davies |Chris Cotonou |Kitty Grady

Filmmaker Asif Kapadia celebrated the vigour of the individual spirit in his critically acclaimed trilogy of biographical documentaries—Senna (2009), Amy (2015) and Diego Maradona (2019). His fear of an environment threatening the existence of such spirits is palpable in his latest film 2073, which premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival.