Johnny Depp French Film ‘Jeanne Du Barry’ to Open Cannes Film Festival
thewrap.comJeanne Vaubernier, a young working-class woman hungry for culture and pleasure, uses her intelligence and allure to climb the rungs of the social ladder one by one.
She becomes the favourite of King Louis XV who, unaware of her status as courtesan, regains through her his appetite for life.
They fall madly in love. Against all propriety and etiquette, Jeanne moves to Versailles, where her arrival scandalizes the court.The Louis XV film is also Depp’s first project since his failed libel lawsuit against the British tabloid The Sun, in which a judge ruled that The Sun’s claim he was a “wife-beater” was “substantially true.” In the wake of that trial, Depp was asked to resign from the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise of films.Maïwenn is an actress and a director known for films “Polisse,” “My King” and most recently “DNA,” in which she also starred.Variety first reported the news..
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