les balconettes is the story of three women who, during a heatwave in marseille, take action againsthem. the metoo movement helped me have more confidence to explore these things. i wanted that the movie would be colourful. punk. violent, because i wanted cathartic. i wanted to explore the feminine violence that is not so much showed. another french film, animale, is a story of a female bullfighter in danger from the bulls in the ring and the male—dominated industry around her. the head of the jury at cannes, director greta gerwig, did point out that over the seven years since the metoo movement started in the usa, concrete steps have been taken to protect those working on films. the one i always think of is, um, is the rise of intimacy coordinators, and that was not something, when i was starting out, that happened at all. and now it's being built into films, and i think... i think of it the exact same way as i think of a stunt coordinator or a fight coordinator. it's part of building a safe environment. the festival may be over, but the conversation in the french cinema industry is

les balconettes is the story of three women who, during a heatwave in marseille, take action againstle, is a story of a female bullfighter in dangerfrom the bulls in the ring and the male—dominated industry around her. the head of the jury at cannes, director greta gerwig, did point out that over the seven years since the metoo movement started in the usa, concrete steps have been taken to protect those working on films. the one i always think of is, um, is the rise of intimacy coordinators, and that was not something, when i was starting out, that happened at all. and now it's being built into films, and i think... i think of it the exact same way as i think of a stunt coordinator or a fight coordinator. it's part of building a safe environment. the festival may be over, but the conversation in the french cinema industry isn't. depardieu's trial later in the year will mean metoo allegations will continue to make global headlines. tom: the israel—gaza war was never far from the minds of festival—goers here in cannes, and it certainly coloured the perception of films from the middle e