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The second season of the charming ode to British comedy begins. Plus: Michael Palin visits Africa’s biggest floating slum. Here’s what to watch this evening

Designer Haider Ackermann is beloved by Hollywood stars, from Timothée Chalamet to Tilda Swinton.

Showcasing upcoming movies starring Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and George Clooney, there’s a generous dose of Hollywood glamour at this year’s Venice Film festival. Film critic Emma Jones brings us the latest from La Serenissima, and flags up some of the major new releases which could…

The Venice premiere of Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door received 17 minutes of applause – has touting the length of clapping has become just another PR tool?

Almodóvar’s first English-language film features sumptuous colours, humour and some killer dialogue

The film sees Moore and Swinton play old friends who reconnect when one learns she is dealing with a terminal illness

Almodóvar’s first English-language film ‘The Room Next Door’ deals with a woman facing her mortality

The Spanish director’s first English-language feature sees Tilda Swinton’s dying journalist trying to reconnect with an old friend played by Julianne Moore

The Spanish director’s latest film, The Room Next Door, in which Tilda Swinton plays a journalist with cancer who decides to end her own life, premieres at the Venice film festival

Spain's Pedro Almodovar has a problem wrapping his head around death. Working in English for a full-length feature posed little problem, said Almodovar, who acknowledged he had initially been wary.

Watch as Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore were among the stars arriving at the Venice Film Festival on Monday (2 September).