Elisabeth Moss

It was a somber start for day seven in Cannes as the Festival, like the rest of the world, awoke to the tragic news coming from Manchester. An official statement from the Festival read: “This is yet another attack on culture, youth and joyfulness, on our freedom, generosity and tolerance, all things that the Festival and those who make it possible –the artists, professionals and spectators– hold dear.

What does it take to object when you are treated as an object? That line could be a mantra for women in our current political climes. Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale creates a world in which child-bearing women are raped to populate the world.

Margaret Atwood’s dystopian tale of life in a theocratic near-future, totalitarian America won the Arthur C. Clarke award and was nominated for a Nebula and the Booker Prize in 1986.