it is the king who inaugurates Cannes in «Jeanne du Barry»- Corriere.it

After leaving the scene as a pirate, he returns as a king. Johnny Depp is preparing for a triumphal march next May 16 on the red carpet of Cannes 76, in the role of Louis XV in Jeanne du Barry by Mawenn, chosen by Thierry Frmaux as the opening film of an edition that promises to be bombastic (the selection will be unveiled on April 13th). An important return that of the American actor after the three-year stop linked to the legal battle with his ex-wife Amber Heard, which closed with the victory in the defamation trial. Mawenn, for his sixth film chose him to play the Bourbon king who ascended the throne at the age of five, who went down in history as the Bien-Aim, which he recounts at the height of his descending parable, in 1768, when, to the great scandal of the court, he imposed the presence in Versailles of his mistress of not noble birth, Jeanne Bcu de Vaubernier, later Countess du Barry. The last favorite of the king, a role that the director herself kept for herself.

Shooting for the film began last July in Paris. In French. Language that Depp knows – he has long been linked to Vanessa Paradis with whom he has had two children – but perhaps not to the point of allowing him to act without an accent. Curiosity is a lot. Jeanne du Barry It will be released immediately in French cinemas, here it will be distributed by Notorius.

Mawenn’s was Depp’s first set60 years old next June 9, from 2019. The last film shot had been The Minimata case by Andrew Levitas, in which he played war photojournalist William Eugene Smith. The domestic violence allegations launched by Amber Heard in May 2016, after only 15 months of marriage, with the request for divorce, made him persona non grata in Hollywood. Out of the de franchise Pirates of the Caribbeanwith the farewell to his most iconic character, Jack Sparrow, also out of the saga Fantastic animals. The actor has always declared himself innocent, the victim of a boycott by the studios, while the news of the divorce and the trial that began on April 11, 2022 filled the news in the newspapers and, even more massively, social networks. Her stories of violence and humiliation suffered during their relationship. The subsequent complaint for defamation of him, with other stories and accusations. All culminated in the public apotheosis in court with public opinion divided equally in half. As is well known, the trial in Fairfax in Virginia ended last June with Heard being sentenced to compensation of 10 million euros. but. But her sentence also provides for two of her for her, defamed by her ex-husband’s lawyer. The trial even became a film, Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial. Not memorable, to be honest.

Depp therefore starts again from the Croisette. He had already been there several times also in competition – as an actor in 1994 with Ed Wood by Tim Burton, con dead man by Jim Jarmusch, con Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Terry Gilliam, as director in 1997 after with The brave – but, of course this time will be very different.
He returns in the role of a sovereign who, like the star, lived moments of overwhelming popularity, only to find himself alone and at the mercy of his own ghosts towards the end of his reign. He consoled himself next to a woman considered at the time the greatest social climber in France. More trivially, the road to the rehabilitation of the great Hollywood outcast passes through the Mont de Marches of the Grand Thtre Lumire.