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Also, I would say Pedro Almodóvar, with Volver as well. I think the idea of having actresses who are not going to be, let’s say, in the regular beauty standards but are very sensual, and very beautiful, very powerful, that’s something that inspired me.

Greta Gerwig has said she watched Jacques Demy's 1964 French musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a film where every word is sung, every surface is saturated with color, and understood immediately what Barbieland should be: a world where artifice isn't dishonesty, it's the only language adequate to feeling. Demy's films are devastating precisely because they're beautiful. The same sadness hides inside Barbie.