Kick-off of the Fortnight, this Tuesday, May 16. The 2023 Cannes Film Festival rolled out its mythical red carpet on which, every year, a shower of stars passes the time of a screening. For the opening, it was the team of the film Jeanne du Barry, directed by Maïwenn, who captured all the eyes. Until the end, it was whispered that Johnny Depp would not come. He finally got out of an official car, behind his bodyguard and in front of hundreds of photographers' flashes, 19 p.m. Controversial in recent months after his trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard, Tim Burton's darling took a crowd bath before grabbing Maïwenn's hand for the climb of the steps, despite rumors of a disagreement on the set between the director and her actor.
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Before them, from 18 p.m., other stars of international cinema climbed the steps of the Palais des Festivals. Raphaël Personnaz posed in front of the photocall with Anaïs Demoustier, when Xavier Dolan or Catherine Deneuve arrived alone at the opening ceremony. Mads Mikkelsen and his wife, Helen Mirren (hair dyed blue), Elle Fanning, Emmanuelle Béart and Uma Thurman also took the temperature of the first evening on the steps.
It was the famous interpreter of Kill Bill, who arrived on the arm of her son Levon Roan Thurman-Hawke, who was tasked with awarding an honorary Palme d'Or to actor and producer Michael Douglas. On this occasion, the 78-year-old American climbed the steps alongside his wife, actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, and their daughter Carys, 19. A complicity that will not have escaped anyone.