This is the film that marks the big return to the screen of Johnny Depp. Jeanne du Barrydirected by Maïwenn, will open the 2023 Cannes Film Festival on May 16, and will be released simultaneously in French cinemas, the organizers announced on Wednesday.
The sixth feature film by the 46-year-old French actress and director (polishesJury Prize in 2011, My king, DNA) “will be projected on the screen of the Grand Théâtre Lumière, after the opening ceremony broadcast live on France Télévisions and Brut”, they indicate. The American actor joins an impressive cast for this 76th Cannes Film Festival. Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert de Niro or even Harrison Ford are particularly expected.
After the judicial soap opera against Amber Heard
Jeanne du Barry is “dedicated to the life, rise and fall of King Louis XV’s favourite”, played by Maïwenn herself. Johnny Depp embodies the French sovereign and gives the answer to French actors like Pierre Richard, Benjamin Lavernhe or India Hair.
The film will mark his big return to the screen, after the highly publicized judicial soap opera which pitted him against his former wife Amber Heard, against a backdrop of accusations of domestic violence and then mutual accusations of defamation.
Of Las Vegas Paranoid To Pirates of the CaribbeanJohnny Depp, 59, has been on screen several times at Cannes, where in 1997 he presented his own director’s film, The Brave.