Johnny Depp is at a career nadir right now after many flops and his infamous divorce/libel case.
So now he will try to revive the career with the Cannes opening night film, “Jeanne duBarry,” directed by Maïwenn, a French female director who’s been at Cannes before.
Maïwenn stars in the film with Depp, as well as Benjamin Lavernhe, Melvil Poupaud, Pierre Richard, Pascal Greggory, and India Hair. Poupaud is also the star of Woody Allen’s new movie, “Coup de Chance.”
The movie opens in France on the same day of the Cannes opening, May 16th. It has no American distributor yet.
From the press release:
In her new film, “Jeanne du Barry,” Maïwenn herself plays the eponymous main character alongside with Johnny Depp, Benjamin Lavernhe, Melvil Poupaud, Pierre Richard, Pascal Greggory and India Hair. Recounting the life, rise and fall of the king Louis XV‘s favourite, the film will be released in French cinemas simultaneously.
Jeanne 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…
