Title: Jeanne du Barry
Original Title: Jeanne du Barry
Year: 2023
Info
- Country: France
- Length: 113 Minutes (1 hour 53 min)
- Budget: $22,400,000
- Genre: Drama Biography
- Studios: Why Not Productions
- Distributor: Notorious Pictures
Plot
Jeanne is a young girl from the lower middle class who feels a strong and intense desire to soak up culture and pleasure. The cunning young woman uses her knowledge and beauty to climb little by little in the social pyramid, so much so that she becomes the favorite of King Louis XV, who without knowing that she is a working-class girl, gives her what is necessary to Restore the will to live. Jeanne and Luis end up falling madly in love with each other, with all the scandal that this entails among the court, who see how a courtesan arrives at the Palace of Versailles to become the faithful support of the King of France.
'Jeanne Du Barry' opened the 76th edition of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. This historical drama is directed by Maïwenn. The French director and winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes with her first feature 'Polisse', directs and co-writes this film with Teddy Lussi-Modeste and Nicolas Livecchi.
As for the cast, Johnny Deep plays King Louis XV, while the young Jeanne is played by the director herself, whom we have seen form part of the cast in most of her previous works. Pierre Richard, from 'Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom', Benjamin Lavernhe, actor in 'Love at Second Sight', Noémie Lvosky, from 'Monsieur Chocolat', Melvin Poupaud, member of 'Thank God', Pascal Greggory, from 'A beautiful morning', and India Hair, complete the cast.
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Spanish trailer 'Jeanne du Barry'
May 16 2023
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Trivia
Karl Lagerfeld and Maïwenn
Karl Lagerfeld set his sights on Maïwenn for her original style and remarkable personality and recruited her as an ambassador for Chanel, to make her the image of the brand's fall-winter 2012/2013 eyewear collection, a campaign he himself photographed.
The role of Louis XV was not originally written for Depp
The film's director, Maïwenn, revealed that she originally wrote the role for a French actor who later refused to read the script. Although it was difficult for her to overcome the disappointment, she finally opted for Depp as a replacement because she said he seemed like the ideal actor for a type of casting that was very far from the archetypes and also because she is a great fan of his work.
The actress who plays Jeanne du Barry is also the director of the film
The french actress who plays Jeanne du Barry is Maïwenn and and she is the director too.. Regarding this, the director commented that it would have been very painful to see someone else play the role, although there were other actresses who could have done it. "I knew the character too well, I felt too close to her to hand her over to anyone else. Directing and acting in the film was a vital and inseparable matter," he acknowledged.
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