posted about it, I was like, well, you forced my hand,” McRae laughs. “So then I changed course.”
DICKINSON: I’m always a bit reluctant to talk about this because it’s something I’ve been doing in private and not trying to be like a heroic thing of a cause. I’m just a minor, minor part of a much bigger cause that is ultimately made up of hundred of thousands of individuals that are collectively working toward change. But it was always important to have the bones of this film lay in that space. It had to have the undercurrent to it. It had to have that factual reality to it.And, yeah, Loach, (Shane) Meadows. Ken Loach, he’s one of the greats, for good reason. He’s made incredibly important films. And I don’t know if this film has the throughline of a social realism drama or a social political film. I think it has the beginnings of it because we enter the world and then stay there very observationally. But then the language changes.
DICKINSON: I hope so. I hope people let me do it again. That’s the goal. But it takes a lot of you. I think my partner is probably happy for me to not be a neurotic person for a bit.DICKINSON: I’ll probably be neurotic, as well. I’ll probably be just as neurotic.For more coverage of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, visit
may be widely known for his contributions to romantic comedies withBut writing and directing some of modern cinema’s most quotable scenes only occupy a portion of his professional life.
Since a trip to Ethiopia in 1985 during the famine, Curtis has also devoted much of his time and energy to charitable causes: Co-founding
for years and helping create organizations like Make Poverty History and more. Decades of work has helped raise more than $2 billion and supported over 170 million people.But the future of Yemen itself remains in question. The Houthis broadly maintain control over the capital of Sanaa and the country’s northwest. Yemen’s exiled government is part of a fractious coalition that for now appears unable to wrest any control back from the rebels. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which launched a war 10 years ago against the Houthis,
as fighting appears broadly frozen on the ground.“The United States can hurt the Houthis, it can weaken them,” wrote Gregory D. Johnsen, a Yemen expert at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, “but without effective ground troops — either its own or someone else’s — it will not be able to eliminate their capabilities.”
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