Cannes

The paparazzi are out in force for the 68th Cannes Film Festival in the south of France. Shown is Mexican actress Salma Hayek, who eats something "disgusting" in Matteo Garrone's Tale of Tales (2015). For the first time in 28 years the festival was opened with a film directed by a woman, an event which has the feminists whinging about lack of equality on the red carpet (CLICK). Yesterday I watched a TV programme about cult director Alfred Hitchcock: Living Famously (CLICK). He said he always aimed his films at women, because when a man took a woman to the cinema he asked her what film she wanted to see. So women choose the films.