Cannes Film Festival always knows how to make an entrance and, while questions still remain about whether the shaky global theatrical experience and China’s buying power will affect the festival (coupled with issues involving the festival’s online ticketing platform), it wasn’t evident on the red carpet. Cannes Welcomes Johnny DeppThe opening night feature, the Maïwenn-directed “Jeanne du Barry,” a period piece starring Johnny Depp as Louix XV, kicked off the first night of the festival.
Reviews from critics were tepid but, as TheWrap’s Steve Pond said in his review, “It’s hard to say that Depp’s performance justifies the fuss, because the movie’s all about Jeanne, not Louis.” Regardless, the film garnered a seven-minute standing ovation for Depp who said at the film’s press conference that “everything that the majority of you have been reading for the last five or six years with regard to me and my life is fantastically, horrifically written fiction.”From the minute the festival announced its opening night film, opinions flew fast and furious.
Cannes president Thierry Fremaux defended the festival and its choice to show Depp’s feature by saying, “If you thought that it’s a festival for rapists, you wouldn’t be here listening to me, you would not be complaining that you can’t get tickets to get into screenings.” It didn’t help matters that Maïwenn herself would be embroiled in controversy, admitting she spit on a journalist in the lead-up to the film and having said journalist accuse her being against the #MeToo movement.Prior to the screening, a letter, signed by 100 French actors, was published in the newspaper “Liberation,” decrying Cannes for “rolling out the red carpet to the men and women who assault,” though it.
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