The shooting was, it seems, a bit stormy.
However, the game was worth the candle.
Maïwenn will indeed present her film
Jeanne du Barry
during the opening ceremony of the 76th Cannes Film Festival, as announced by the organizers of the event, on Wednesday April 5.
The feature film, which relates the life, rise and fall of the favorite of Louis XV, embodied by the filmmaker in person, will be projected on May 16 on the screen of the Grand Théâtre Lumière.
It will hit theaters the same day.
The opportunity for Maïwenn to once again climb the steps of the Palais des Festivals, where she has already presented her works
Polisse
(2011),
Mon Roi
(2015) and
ADN
(2020).
She won the Jury Prize for the first, and actress Emmanuelle Bercot received the Best Actress Prize for the second.
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Jeanne du Barry
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Polisse
- Cannes Film Festival 2011
A conflicting shoot?
The screening of Maïwenn's sixth film will also sign the big return of Johnny Depp on the red carpet.
A
red carpet
that the interpreter of Louis XV could survey alongside Benjamin Lavernhe, Melvil Poupaud, Pierre Richard, Pascal Gregory and India Hair, his filming partners.
Which, however, would not have been easy.
This took place in particular at the castle of Vaux-Le Vicomte, and ended in mid-October 2022.
At the beginning of October 2022, the journalist Bernard Montiel had declared in “Touche Pas à Mon Poste”, at the beginning of October 2022, that Maïwenn and Johnny Depp no longer got along.
"It's madness," he explained.
They're fed up.
It's going very badly.
They fight constantly.”
Since then, the director has denied this information in the
Journal du Dimanche
, at the beginning of January.
An interview in which she praised the talent of the actor.
My film is not very talkative and it thus did not have sandwiches of texts to say, it explained on its subject.
What impressed me the most was his expressiveness: in the scenes without dialogue, his face showed a lot of emotion."
Or again: "He likes to transform himself a lot, he's a real chameleon: he's always very keen to find his character."
Maïwenn, however, cast doubt on the vagaries of filming.
“I knew that this adventure of cinema would be a very big test, she affirmed.
I'm holding on because Jeanne is more important than anything."
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