With rumors of a #MeToo bombshell report knocking on the Cannes Film Festival’s door, this year’s jury president of the 77th edition, Greta Gerwig, acknowledged the wave that’s out there in a way that Festival Boss Thierry Frémaux didn’t want to address at his press conference yesterday.

Gerwig, 40, will be the first female U.S. director to serve as jury president, taking the baton from the head of the 2023 jury, "Triangle of Sadness" director and two-time Palme d'Or winner, Ruben Ostlund of Sweden. Continue reading

Gracious throughout the lively meeting with the world media, the Barbie director argued that filmmaking is its own worthy form of worldly engagement: "The very act of watching cinema and engaging with it seriously is part of the discussion of what's difficult [in the world].