At the Cannes Film Festival, Greta Gerwig discusses the #MeToo movement in France. "It is traveling in the right direction."

 At the Cannes Film Festival, Greta Gerwig discusses the #MeToo movement in France. "It is traveling in the right direction."

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Greta Gerwig, the chairwoman of the Cannes competition jury this year, discussed the #MeToo movement in an interview with the media. Gerwig is the director of Barbie.

During a press conference on the first day of the Cannes Film Festival, director Greta Gerwig discussed the #MeToo movement that is gaining traction in France. She claimed to have observed "substantial change" in the American film industry following the #MeToo movement, according to a Variety story. (Also Read: The French comedy The Second Act is scheduled to open the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, with Meryl Streep receiving an honorary Palme d'Or.)

"It's critical that we continue the conversation."

"I think people in the community of movies telling us stories and trying to change things for the better is only good," the Barbie director was cited as saying. I believe it's critical that we keep having this discourse because I have witnessed significant changes in the American film industry. Therefore, I believe it's only directing things in the right way. Maintain those channels of contact.

In addition, a strike has been announced by the French collective Sous les écrans la dèche in protest of impending labor policy changes. She responded, "I certainly support labor movements and we've certainly gone through this just now with our unions," when questioned about the shift in unrest at the event, which included protectionists among the drivers and caterers who were part of the organization. It is my hope that the festival workers will be able to come to a consensus that benefits both the event and themselves.

Greta in Cannes

This year's competition jury, which will present the Palme d'Or at the conclusion of the festival, is presided over by Greta. Actors Lily Gladstone of Killers of the Flower Moon, French actor Eva Green, Turkish actor and screenwriter Ebru Ceylan, Italian actor and producer Pierfrancesco Favino, Spanish filmmaker JA Bayona, Japanese filmmaker and producer Hirokazu Kore-eda, Lebanese actor and filmmaker Nadine Labaki, and French actor Omar Sy are joining her on the jury.

This year's opening night picture at the Cannes picture Festival is Quentin Dupieux's The Second Act, for which Meryl Streep will be awarded an honorary Palme d'Or.