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5 new Hulu movies with over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes to stream in June 2025
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. If you've yet to start compiling your summer watchlist, look no further than Hulu's latest movie library refresh, which is set to arrive in the coming weeks. As always, it's the movies with over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes that we keep an eye out for, and once again, Hulu is delivering – we'd expect nothing less from one of the best streaming services. The sci-fi classic Aliens (1986) will be coming to the platform along with six other installments from the Alien franchise which, along with Doug Liman's Edge of Tomorrow (2014), makes it a great month for sci-fi and action fans. But it's not just sci-fi that's making waves on Hulu this month There are highly-rated dramas, including a Woody Allen comedy-drama and a Richard Linklater romance, both from the early 2010s, plus a 2023 western. RT score: 94%Runtime: 137 minutesDirector: James CameronArriving on: June 1 Aliens debunks the myth that the original is better than the sequel; it was one of the highest grossing movies of 1986, it earned Sigourney Weaver an Oscar nomination, and is still highly favored over the prequel Alien (1979) by critics and sci-fi buffs alike. In the years following the alien attack on a spaceship, sole survivor Lt. Ripley (Weaver) has been floating through space for the past 57 years when she's rescued by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. After losing communications with the human colony where the original alien eggs were found, Ripley returns to the site to find it completely destroyed along with a terrified young girl named Newt (Carrie Henn). RT score: 98%Runtime: 109 minutesDirector: Richard LinklaterArriving on: June 1 In 1995 Richard Linklater directed Before Sunrise, the first movie in his romantic drama trilogy and where the love story between Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) all began. The third installment sees the return of Linklater's characters almost 10 years after the release of Before Sunset (2004), the second chapter in their love story. Now a couple, the final movie follows Jesse and Celine on a Greek vacation with their children. Reflecting on the ups and downs on their relationship history the two reminisce in their love story, remembering the very first time they met 20 years prior on a train to Vienna. RT score: 90%Age rating: Runtime: 98 minutesDirector: Woody AllenArriving on: June 1 Give me anything with Cate Blanchett, and I shall be sat. As well as Blanchett, this Woody Allen comedy-drama stars more familiar faces from Alec Baldwin, to Sally Hawkins, and Bobby Cannavale - earning Blanchett the Best Actress Oscar. New York socialite Jasmine (Blanchett) is going through a rough patch and her marriage to her rich businessman husband Hal (Baldwin) is failing miserably. With no where else to go she moves to San Francisco to live with her sister Ginger (Hawkins), a working-class woman and the total opposite to Jasmine. Though she has limited life and job skills, she is forced to take up a regular job with which is reluctant, and start a new life away from the high society culture she's used to. RT score: 91%Age rating: PG-13Runtime: 113 minutesDirector: Doug Liman Arriving on: June 1 Before directing Edge of Tomorrow, Doug Liman had previous experience working on action movies, most notably The Bourne Identity (2002) and Mr & Mrs. Smith (2005), all of which laid the groundwork for his approach to taking on a high-value production with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt at the forefront. In this sci-fi action epic, Europe has succumbed to an invasion of an invincible alien race. Public relations officer with no combat experience William Cage (Cruise) is tasked with a suicide mission, and is killed instantly. He learns that he's caught in a time loop, and after reliving the same fights and death over again his skills and strength grow stronger bringing him and comrade Rita (Blunt) closer to victory. RT score: 91%Age rating: RRuntime: 99 minutesDirector: Luke GilfordArriving on: June 5 The newest release in my list comes from 2023, and is a western drama flick by Luke Gilford in his feature directorial debut. After premiering at South by Southwest in 2023 Film and TV festival, it had a theatrical release in summer 2024. This is western like you've never seen it done before. Dylan (Charlie Plummer) is a 21-year-old construction worker with a soft nature, taking jobs wherever he can to support his family. He comes across a new job at a New Mexico ranch ran by queer rodeo performers, and is immediately welcomed into their family. When Dylan meets Sky (Eve Lindley), he uncovers an emotional connection with her and, much like the others, starts putting the pieces of his own identity together. FX confirms Shōgun season 2 is still far-off returning to Disney+ and Hulu, but two of the best characters will be back 5 of the biggest streaming announcements from Warner Bros. Discovery Upfront 2025, from HBO Max shows to the new Superman trailer Alien: Earth – everything we know so far about FX's Alien TV show coming to Hulu and Disney+
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We used AI for retirement planning advice and were surprised by what we found
A year ago, if you had asked me whether you should use artificial intelligence to help with your retirement planning, I would have said, absolutely not. Artificial intelligence officially went mainstream in 2023 — a year that marked its leap from cubicles of tech geeks into the daily lives of average Americans. Since then, AI's reach has grown rapidly. Today, average Americans are turning to AI for all sorts of everyday tasks and diversions: planning vacations, creating recipes out of ingredients in the fridge and pantry, writing college essays, producing videos, and creating action figures. Why Obama's former budget director is now sounding alarms about debt Treasury Secretary Bessent has a plan to bring down long-term yields. But will it work? I'm hosting a Memorial Day barbecue. Would it be so bad to ask my guests to make financial contributions? 'Is this a good tax strategy or a sham transaction?' My mother wants to give me her home. I have a plan to avoid taxes. Rising bond yields give stock-market investors the yips. Watch these levels. And it's not just personal use. AI is increasingly embedded in the workplace, where workers — or at least those not yet displaced by AI — are using it for data analysis, content creation, vibe coding, customer service, and digital marketing So if you asked me today whether it's a good idea to use AI for retirement planning, my answer would be yes — provided you can become proficient in what's known as prompt engineering. Prompt engineering is the practice of crafting clear, specific instructions or questions to get more accurate and relevant responses from AI tools like ChatGPT. I say this for several reasons. I've been experimenting quite a bit with AI and getting feedback from subject matter experts who are thoroughly impressed with the responses I'm getting back from AI systems like Gemini Deep Research. For instance, I asked Gemini Deep Research to develop a retirement spending plan based on research by Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder, both of Rand, which showed that spending declines on a real basis 1–2% over the course of retirement, as well as research by David Blanchett, then with Morningstar, which showed expenditures decrease in real terms for retirees throughout retirement and then increase toward the end. Afterward, I shared AI's report with Hurd and Blanchett. 'This is terrific,' said Hurd. And Blanchett said: 'Looking at the analysis, it looks pretty accurate and straightforward… High level. I'd say I'm excited about the potential role of AI when it comes to helping people get more personalized advice/guidance around things like retirement versus what you might see reading an article online or something.' Another reason to pay attention to AI in retirement planning comes from the work of Andrew Lo, a professor at MIT, and Jillian Ross, a doctoral student who collaborates with him. Together, they are exploring whether large language models like ChatGPT can provide reliable financial advice to everyday investors. Early results suggest the potential is there. In their paper Can ChatGPT Plan Your Retirement?, Lo and Ross argue that AI-powered financial advisers, often referred to as robo advisers, could represent the future of financial planning. However, they note that these tools still require significant improvement before they can truly replace human advisers. One key area of development is the ability for AI to exhibit more humanlike traits, such as empathy and an understanding of each person's emotional relationship with money. Lo and Ross also emphasized the importance of embedding ethical standards into AI systems. These standards should reflect a fiduciary duty, meaning the AI must always act in the best interest of the client, rather than in the interest of its creators or affiliated companies. If these improvements can be achieved, the authors believe AI financial advisers could dramatically expand access to quality financial planning. By combining deep analytical capabilities with a more personalized, human approach, AI could help make professional-level advice available to people who might not otherwise afford it. In a separate paper titled Generative AI from Theory to Practice: A Case Study of Financial Advice, Lo and Ross outlined the next step in this evolution. They point to finance-specific large language models as the future of robo-advisory services. Looking ahead, Lo and Ross envision a transformation of retail investment where everyone with investible wealth can make optimal investment decisions aligned with their life goals – essentially a 'full democratization of finance.' And reason number three has to do with my discussions with James Mallory, a professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, one of the colleges of Rochester Institute of Technology. Mallory, who has degrees in computer science and electrical engineering technologies, demonstrated for me how someone could use AI to handle complex financial calculations that previously required extensive spreadsheet work. 'With AI, you could run a simple table or do a complex Monte Carlo analysis,' said Mallory. 'You could have AI calculate RMDs based on your unique situation and show the actual mathematical formulas for doing so.' During our Zoom call, Mallory shared how someone could upload financial documents in the form of PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, or even screen captures or images from reputable brokerage firms or financial institutions, then ask AI to analyze them and generate retirement scenarios. The system could help evaluate a range of planning decisions, including: – Optimal Social Security claiming strategies– Roth IRA conversion timelines– Tax-efficient withdrawal strategies– Healthcare cost projectionsMallory demonstrated for me how to develop a plan using AI that could achieve a sample client's retirement goals. During our meeting we ran a typical client scenario to: – Not run out of money before age 95– Minimize required minimum distributions and maximize Roth conversions– Manage Medicare income-related monthly adjustment amount surcharges Into AI, we plugged in facts and circumstances: account balances, income sources and amounts, planned withdrawals, and assumptions for portfolio returns, inflation, and taxes. And then we made the request. We asked AI to generate a year-by-year table from current age to 95 showing:– IRA withdrawals– Roth withdrawals– Social Security income– Taxable account withdrawals– Remaining balances in each account– Estimated federal and state taxes paid annually– RMD projections once applicable– Highlight if/when funds may be depleted– A plain-language summary– Output in a downloadable Excel file and a Word summary– Use clear, short column headings– Follow plain text formatting (no bold, no hyphens, use commas instead of dashes)It could even run a Monte Carlo simulation at any confidence you wanted for success probability. Suffice it to say, AI generated exactly what we wanted. AI, said Mallory, is like having a hammer. 'I can build a school or a church with it, or I could hit somebody over the head with it,' he said. 'The hammer's not bad or good, it's just a tool, and it depends on what you are going to do with it. AI is the same way, and I've been playing around with it. With AI, we could run our own Monte Carlo analysis. We could figure RMDs, put in different numbers, dump tables, spreadsheets, etc.' Mallory is completely trusting of the computed results in ways I never was a year ago, when AI would typically get much wrong with respect to retirement and financial planning. He doesn't feel the need to talk to a subject matter expert for most of these kinds of routine things as long as the user has a basic knowledge to create and verify the input prompting questions and the outputs are at least 'in the ballpark' with what is expected to verify its accuracy. He doesn't need a sounding board for this, although he strongly suggested running the ideas by an investment professional before any big decisions are made. 'So you're 99% trusting of it, if not more?' I asked Mallory.'In financial planning, yes,' Mallory said. And why is that the case? 'For a couple reasons,' he said. 'One, I have found that none of the financial experts from different reputable firms agree on exactly how things should be allocated. One expert would say there is too much cash invested, where another may say it's fine for derisking. Some recommend an S&P 500 SPX rated portfolio with a percentage in bonds and cash, others believe in an equal weight S&P 500 fund with no cash and a percentage in bonds. For example, some say 80/20, some say 60/40, some say 60/30/10. To a lay person, that conflicting advice can be confusing.''And two,' he said, 'AI can tap into the entire world's body of financial knowledge and expertise to answer virtually any question someone might have.' In that sense, Mallory sees it as more reliable than any single human adviser or firm, since it can compare and synthesize a range of expert perspectives and recommendations. Mallory describes himself as a 'common user in the financial sector,' but emphasized that getting useful financial guidance from AI requires effective 'prompt engineering,' which means knowing how to ask the right questions in the right way. This, he believed, is where the value of a financial expert would be beneficial, designing the prompts. 'It's all about prompt engineering,' the professor said. 'For example, you might tell the AI, 'I want you to act as an expert in this area. Think through what an expert would do. What guidance does the government provide? What are the required minimum distribution rules at age 72 or 73? What are the formulas involved?'' Does all this mean that there's no use for financial advisers in the future? Not necessarily. Despite his enthusiasm for AI tools, Mallory acknowledged its limitations and emphasized that he still values expert guidance for the larger picture.'It's not a replacement for an adviser clearly, but it takes a lot of the heavy lifting and tedious financial calculations away,' he offers one important caution around privacy and security. He strongly advises against uploading any documents that contain account numbers, Social Security numbers, or other sensitive personal information. For birthdays, he recommends using only the month and year, and substituting fake names whenever possible. Even better, you can simply tell the AI the person's age along with a placeholder name. While large language models, or what many refer to as LLMs, may claim they don't store your data, the information still passes through the cloud at least once, which raises concerns. Many paid AI platforms promise not to use your data to train their models, but free versions may use your inputs to improve their systems, something users should be aware of. 'While AI offers transformative potential in finance, it also raises serious concerns about data privacy and the risk of algorithmic misuse in decision-making,' wrote the authors of The Roles of Alternative Data and Machine Learning in Fintech Lending: Evidence from the LendingClub Consumer Platform. So proceed with caution and good common sense. 'Like the hammer, be wise and selective how you use it,' Mallory said. After 25 years, I finally asked for separate checks — and my friends iced me out. Did I do something terrible? 'What we found horrified us': My elderly relative mistook charity envelopes for overdue bills — and gave thousands to other family members My ex-wife said she should have been compensated for working part time during our marriage. Do I owe her? My brother's 'good daughter' siphoned $70,000 from her father's accounts. Should she still get an inheritance? 'They will drown you too': My coworker found out I inherited money — and harassed me to give him a loan
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23-05-2025
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Uniqlo and Cate Blanchett to Support Displaced Directors Through Film Fund
CANNES, France — Uniqlo is stepping in to support films made by refugees from around the world. The Japanese brand is donating 100,000 euros to support the newly launched Displacement Film Fund. The initial round will support five filmmakers from across the globe, with their films set to debut at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2026. More from WWD Uniqlo Parties On at Tate Modern Best Dressed Guests at the 2025 Chelsea Flower Show Roger Federer and Clare Waight Keller Discuss First Uniqlo Collection Each filmmaker will receive up to 100,000 euros from the fund to produce a film under one hour that explores the experience of being displaced. 'The growing human displacement is one of the great challenges facing us as a species, but yet somehow, like climate change, it's off the mainstream conversation, and I always find that quite bewildering,' said Cate Blanchett during a press conference and panel discussion opened by Cannes Film Festival artistic director Thierry Frémaux. Blanchett, who has served as an ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees since 2016, said the program aims to support filmmakers who can reach audiences 'perhaps outside of their comfort zone and break down the stigmatization of those stories.' Displaced people are defined as those forced to flee their homes due to conflict, persecution, violence, or human rights violations. The idea for the project originated 18 months ago, and the team acted quickly to bring partners on board. 'There was a broad coalition of the willing coming at it from many different angles — private philanthropy, the corporate sector, and, of course, artists attached to cultural institutions and festivals,' said Blanchett. The fund uses the term 'displaced artists' rather than 'refugee,' as the latter word 'becomes almost a ghettoizing, stigmatizing and stereotypical label that prevents the word 'artist' coming front and center,' she added. A selection committee including actress Cynthia Erivo and director Agnieszka Holland oversaw a two-step selection process. The first round of participants includes Ukrainian filmmaker Maryna Er Gorbach, Somali filmmaker Mo Harawe, Syrian filmmaker Hasan Kattan, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof and Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat. Koji Yanai, group senior executive officer at Uniqlo parent company Fast Retailing, said he met Blanchett at the UNHCR-organized Global Refugee Forum in 2023. 'We connected over the desire to give a platform to displaced people and raise awareness about their stories through movies,' he told WWD. The initiative is being launched as a pilot program, though 'we expect the project [to] continue,' said Yanai. Blanchett added that they had considered a larger program with up to 20 films, but the team recognized the need to act quickly and selected a smaller cohort of directors with plans to expand. 'As we gain more backers, the program will expand and may take on new formats,' said Yanai. Blanchett described the Cannes launch as 'a call to arms' for the industry. 'We need those streaming platforms. We need those distributors and exhibitors to say, 'We're going to put these in front of [an audience],' she said. 'Those conversations are very much on our mind.' Yanai hinted that Uniqlo will put its worldwide retail reach behind those efforts. 'We would like to consider utilizing Uniqlo's global network to connect these stories to engage with global audiences in future,' he added. Best of WWD Model and Hip Hop Fashion Pioneer Kimora Lee Simmons' Runway Career Through the Years [PHOTOS] Salma Hayek's Fashion Evolution Through the Years: A Red Carpet Journey [PHOTOS] How Christian Dior Revolutionized Fashion With His New Look: A History and Timeline
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23-05-2025
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Cate Blanchett, Afghan, Syrian Creators on Fund for Displaced Directors Backing 'Surprising Narratives'
Five filmmakers from Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia and Ukraine are the recipients of the inaugural Displacement Film Fund, a short film grant scheme recently unveiled by Cate Blanchett and the International Film Festival Rotterdam's (IFFR) Hubert Bals Fund, and the star was in Cannes on Friday to celebrate the recipients, who include Iranian auteur Mohammad Rasoulof (The Seed of the Sacred Fig), and raise awareness. The recently unveiled fund is designed to 'champion and fund the work of displaced filmmakers, or filmmakers with a proven track record in creating authentic storytelling on the experiences of displaced people.' More from The Hollywood Reporter 'A Private Life' Review: A Delightfully Paired Jodie Foster and Daniel Auteuil Escape Injury in a Messy but Pleasurable Genre Collision Prince William Launches 'Guardians' Docuseries on Rangers on BBC Earth Digital Platforms Cannes: Hasan Hadi's 'The President's Cake' Wins Directors' Fortnight Audience Award Blanchett was joined for the Cannes event by IFFR managing director Clare Stewart, grant recipients Maryna Er Gorbach, the Ukrainian director known for Klondike, and Somali-Austrian filmmaker Mo Harawe (The Village Next to Paradise), along with Rajendra Roy, chief curator of film at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. 'It's a pilot program to allow a more mainstream audience access to the work of the five recipients of the grant,' Blanchett shared as she took time in between a busy Cannes schedule to talk to THR on Friday via Zoom. 'Part of being here in Cannes is a call to arms to the rest of the industry to help to find mainstream platforms to get these voices out, because it's potentially an incredibly exciting form of storytelling for a wider audience.' Joining Blanchett in the Zoom conversation were Stewart, Syrian filmmaker Hasan Kattan (Last Men in Aleppo) and Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat, who fled to Germany and whose debut film Wolf and Sheep won the top award in the 2016 Directors' Fortnight program at Cannes. The two filmmakers weren't in attendance at Cannes. 'We're doing short films with full production funding because of that urgency, that desire to get films out there, to make a profile for the need of the industry to galvanize around this,' explained Stewart, echoing the notion of the fund as 'a call to action.' She also highlighted that Roy's presence is key given his role as 'co-chair of the international award at the Oscars, and they have just made a change to the regulations there to support refugee and displaced filmmakers to be able to participate more fully in the awards process.' Sadat shared with THR insight into her grant-receiving project with the working title Female Fitness of Kabul and the experience of earnings the grant. 'Inside a crumbling Kabul gym, its walls covered with oiled muscle men and doors open to women for only a few hours each day,' reads a synopsis of her film. 'Afghan housewives in scarves and long dresses reclaim not just their bodies, but also their spirits, their bonds, and their sense of self.' When she found out about the grant, 'I was like, 'This is amazing. I'm the most perfect candidate',' she recalled. 'This is my life. I was born in Iran to an Afghan refugee family, and the very first ID card that I ever received was a refugee card. It means I was born a refugee, even if it doesn't make sense. Until I was 11, I was living in Iran, and I was always called 'Afghan,' which is more of an insult. And then when we moved to Afghanistan, I was called Iranian there. I never really felt like I was in the right place.' Then she evacuated with her family to Germany. 'I didn't even know about the word 'displacement',' she shared. 'I thought this more and less how everyone feels. Of course, I connected displacement to land, but also to gender. I also connect displacement to women issues, because it's kind of like double exile, being a woman in a society that you're not really accepted in.' How does that feel? 'The more you try, the more you get rejected. And you don't even feel at home under your own skin,' Sadat explained. 'I was thinking about this idea for a very long time, and then I thought this is the perfect platform for me to explore this idea through this gym in Kabul.' Her film features 'a group of housewives who are going there, and they do fitness. And they experience this in a little gym in Kabul with all these posters of men with exaggerated muscles and oily bodies, and these women trying to fit themselves in. I thought it would be interesting to also look at displacement from another point of view.' Meanwhile, Kattan discussed his project with the working title Allies in Exile, for which he earned a Displacement Film Fund grant. 'Two Syrian filmmakers, bound by a 14-year friendship forged in war, document their shared exile in the U.K. asylum system – until one is granted refuge and the other returns to a changed Syria, reflecting the impossible choices refugees face today,' reads a synopsis for the film. 'Last year was so difficult for me because I ended up here in the U.K. as an asylum seeker, and I was inside the asylum process, every day facing the system from inside and feeling the disappointment,' Kattan told THR. 'I started from the zero point again. And through this experience and the revolution in Syria, documenting everything, telling a story feels like it's the only way that we can scream or express our feelings.' He added: 'When I heard about and saw this grant and fund, I thought, 'Oh my God, this is really, really what I need.' Because I was having no hope to make this film, because finding money in this time and my situation – how do I express this? When you live this experience, you lose any hope around you. You start to feel hopeless. When I saw this grant, it was a big hope for me to bring light to this project, to this film, because I see it as helping me in my personal perspective and reflecting the situation of the asylum seeker.' Concluded Kattan: 'It's not just about fleeing war, it's not about the journey. It's about the daily struggle and the human struggle in daily life. I hope I can make this project, this film, [create] a wide conversation about asylum seekers and refugees.' Rasoulof was awarded his grant for a so far unnamed project with this plot description: 'After the death of an exiled writer, his family tries to fulfill his wish to be buried according to his will – but honoring his request leads to unexpected complications.' Harawe's project with the working title Whispers of a Burning Scent is pitched this way: 'On the day of a pivotal court hearing, a quiet man faces the unraveling of his marriage and the judgment of his stepchildren, while searching for solace in what once gave his life meaning.' Er Gorbach's Silk Road, also a working title, is described as 'a timely Ukraine–Europe road movie about a young Ukrainian woman whose family has been torn apart by war: while her children live in Europe, she and her husband remain in Kyiv, working in a children's hospital as the war goes on.' The Displacement Film Fund pilot program is offering grants of €100,000 ($104,000) each to the five displaced filmmakers to make original shorts. Blanchett headed up the selection committee, joined by Wicked star Cynthia Erivo, documentarians Jonas Poher Rasmussen (Flee) and Waad Al-Kateab (For Sama), director Agnieszka Holland (Green Border), Rotterdam festival director Vanja Kaludjercic, activist and refugee Aisha Khurram, and Amin Nawabi [alias], the LGBTQ+ asylum seeker who was Rasmussen's inspiration for the Oscar-nominated Flee. 'The numbers of people outside their their country of origin around the world has just ballooned and continues to grow,' Blanchett told THR. 'I'm a global Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, and when I started working with them 10 years ago, the numbers were around 60 million, and it's now over 120 million. And while people are displaced, they don't stop being mothers, brothers, uncles, cousins, nor do they stop being filmmakers and artists. And given that it's one of the great challenges that we're facing as a species, it's always bewildered me why these incredible stories, heartbreaking sometimes, yes, but inspiring and having more points of connection to people's lives who are not displaced, why they don't get told more frequently. So that was part of the DNA of the idea.' She lauded 'a real coalition of the willing' for making the fund happen quickly. The five short films will have their world premieres at IFFR next year but Blanchett and Stewart 'and others who are coalescing around the fund are also very committed to indeed [figuring out] what the lives of the films will be' beyond that, the Stewart said. 'That's what we are here to sort out,' Blanchett concluded. And the star highlighted that the stories told by displaced creatives will be able to surprise audiences. 'There are so many surprising narratives that emerge, often heartbreaking, but also full of resilience and transformation,' Blanchett said. 'Part of the DNA of the fund in its pilot stage is to sort of reject and challenge the stereotypes and the categorizations that swirl around the discourse about what it means to be displaced. These might be genre-driven or romantic or surprising stories that really speak to the breadth of that experience and entertain an audience. And then they happen to find out that the filmmaker is displaced or that there's much more connective tissue between their experience and their own.' Concluded Blanchett: 'It's a wonderful beginning, in that way, to really allow the audience to go through some sort of revelatory transformation as much as perhaps the filmmakers getting a chance to pick up the pieces of their amazing careers that they had to leave behind when they left their countries.' 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Elle
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
Cate Blanchett Takes On Bootcut Flares With Aplomb — Here's How To Wear Them Now
Cate Blanchett has never been one to stand sartorially still. The Academy Award winner is as expansive with her wardrobe as she is the roles she takes on; as comfortable in a directional piece by a rising design star as a classic gown by a fashion behemoth. FIND OUT MORE AT ELLE COLLECTIVE At last night's Louis Vuitton cruise show in Avignon a new style narrative unfolded for the Australian actor as she opted to wear a pair of leather bootcut trousers by the fashion house. Bootcut trousers, much like their sisters the skinny jean, are a divisive choice. For some of us, we remain scarred by their omnipresence as the flattering choice throughout the Noughties, unable to understand how that fashion cycle has come around full circle so quickly. Or, then there's the idea that they look just a little too neat. Surely a baggier, fuller legged option would feel more modern and more comfortable to wear? These concerns clearly do not effect Blanchett. The Tár actor, who has a long standing relationship with Louis Vuitton and its creative director Nicolas Ghesquière, wore her trousers with a trailing, dramatic caped blouse that fell behind her. The printed blouse was complete with embellishments over the wide shoulders and, with the help of not one, but two belts to tuck it in, the high-pitched waistband was on display. What's worth taking note of here is the details that come together to make the bootleg trousers a convincing option for those of us not living on Planet Hollywood. Firstly, the leather fabrication gives the trousers an edge that moves them away from corporate core or anything too retro, while the choice of a strong-shouldered blouse offers a balance. But, what's most key is the width of the trouser flare. Blanchett's LV pants are just the right amount of width, as they fall neatly over the shoe rather than pooling in great volume. It's an observation worth considering should you wish to try them for yourself. Blanchett's leather trousers weren't the only pair of note she's sported this week. To attend the Chelsea Flower Show in London, the actor left the florals to the horticulturalists and instead wore louche tailoring with a mix-and-match approach. Set against a cornflower blue shirt, she wore a grey blazer over brown trousers and finished the ensemble with requisite white framed sunglasses. Another alt approach to spring to summer dressing that's worth taking note of. ELLE Collective is a new community of fashion, beauty and culture lovers. For access to exclusive content, events, inspiring advice from our Editors and industry experts, as well the opportunity to meet designers, thought-leaders and stylists, become a member today HERE. Freelancer
