This week, the team at A Rabbit’s Foot have been engrossed by the Cannes Film Festival schedule.
The selection, announced just last week by festival head Thierry Frémaux, tends to define pretty much every major movie release going forward, and consequently, we’re placing bets, making far-reaching assumptions, and talking in sweeping terms about what will become audience favourites by the next Academy Awards. To listen in on the conversation, you can read our editors’ picks—now on the site.
There are excellent events for you to keep an eye on this week. I spoke to filmmaker Gerry Fox the other day over the phone. His latest, Kinaesthesia, is a real love-letter to cinema, showing at the BFI this weekend alongside a special Q&A (Fox is a legend of art documentary filmmaking, so try to be there).
This edition visits a proper Spanish tailor in Mayfair, Digital Editor Kitty Grady gets to grips with Patrick Radden Keefe’s latest page-turner and a new art salon, whilst we also spotlight a stage performance of the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. We love the Stephen Frears adaptation, but only a Chinese version—set in 1930s Shanghai—made it to Cannes back in 2012. If A Rabbit’s Foot was around back then, it’s exactly the kind of movie we’d be adding to our watchlist.
That’s enough from me. Until next week!
– Chris Cotonou, Deputy Editor, A Rabbit’s Foot
Week 13th April 2026
FILM
This weekend, our beloved BFI is showing a series of films related to ‘dreams’. It is curated in tandem with Gerry Fox’s 2025 film Kinaesthesia—inspired by Fox’s Harvard film professor Vlada Petric as he journeys through the history of dreams in early cinema, from French Impressionism, to German Expressionism and the American avant-garde. This is a film to be treasured by cinephiles—encompassing the medium’s delights in a way that is both entertaining and insightful. On Friday and Saturday, Fox will be there to present a special Q&A, promising entertaining anecdotes from his research into the films behind his film. He returns on Sunday to host a Silent Dreams Shorts Programme—experimental shorts like Meshes of the Afternoon and Accident presented side-by-side. (CC) Kinaesthesia + Gerry Fox Q&A is on at the BFI, Friday 17th and Sunday 19th
BOOKS
I’ve been obsessed with Patrick Radden Keefe since reading Empire of Pain, his investigation into the Sackler family—villainous architects of the opioid crisis—a few years ago. That led me to Say Nothing, his equally gripping study of The Troubles (as the progeny of Irish Catholics from Northern Ireland, I am hyperconscious of how sensitive this terrain can be, but Radden Keefe nails it). PRK’s latest looks into the life of a British teen, Zac Brettler, who mysteriously fell to his death in the River Thames. First developed as an essay in The New Yorker, London Falling goes further into Brettler’s story, and opens a window onto the criminal networks that nefariously thrive in the capital. (Kitty Grady, Digital Editor) London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe is published now by Picador
ART
The salon has undeniably been having a bit of a revival of late, with a new reading series or poetry night seemingly popping up in my inbox every week. Recently, a new—if somewhat mysterious one—has caught my attention. The Salon, founded by New Yorker Lauren Gardner in 2023, describes itself as sort of roaming gallery that imitates the mighty salons of Gertrude Stein, whilst exhibiting contemporary in private spaces to create an intimacy that is lost in a white cube. I’ll be popping along to their event this Saturday in South London which will feature art by Rainy Tong, Dara Annett and Elaine Spears. It’s invite-only, but you can request to be invited via their website and the ticket price can be taken off any art purchase. (KG) itsthesalon.com
THEATRE
Christopher Hampton’s masterful reinvention of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the 1782 novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, is now showing at the National Theatre, starring Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) and Aidan Turner (Rivals). Set in the salons of eighteenth-century France, a pair of former-lovers engage in a sinister game of seduction and social warfare. “This book burns as only ice can burn,” Baudelaire would declare of the original novel; we hope this new stage version arrives with the same scorch. (CC) Les Liaisons Dangereuses is playing a limited run at London’s National Theatre until the 6th June.
MUSIC
This Thursday, Sir Antonio Pappano will conduct the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall in what promises to be an evening for music and film lovers alike. Norwegian superstar violinist Vilde Frang takes on Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s virtuosic Violin Concerto, a swooningly romantic piece born out of the melodies the composer first wrote for Hollywood, where his scores helped shape the sound of cinema’s golden age. The Concerto is set between Imogen Holst’s mythical Persephone, and the darker world of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. (CC) London Symphony Orchestra x Sir Antonio Pappano: Holst, Korngold, and Shostakovich, Thursday 16 April at the Barbican Hall.
SHOPPING
In other news (and with all this Cannes excitement building), I’ve been looking for a new suit to replace my tatty, old navy one. Just off Jermyn Street, the recently opened Monte Lys caters to women and men. It’s Savile Row prices—as it should be for the amount of time that goes into each stitch, and the Savile Row-trailed tailor-founder on-site—but there are numerous options to go for. Monte Lys is run by a third generation Madrid tailor, who has brought his father’s business to London. I loved their store (inspired by the opera) and particularly the selection of tebas; the perfect springtime jacket. Is this the only place in London where you can get a properly made Spanish teba? I think so. I also reckon there’s a dearth of Spanish-style tailoring (Ivy League meets British country, with Iberican details) in London, which this opening makes up for. Discover it for yourself here! (CC) Monte Lys, 22 Bury St, London SW1Y 6AL
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