Johnny Depp comeback movie Jeanne Du Barry is to open the Cannes Film Festival.
Directed by Maïwenn, who also co-stars, the film’s world premiere will take place on Tuesday, May 16 and the film will be released in cinemas the same day in France.
Maïwenn herself plays the eponymous main character alongside Depp, Benjamin Lavernhe, Melvil Poupaud, Pierre Richard, Pascal Greggory and India Hair. The film will recount the life, rise and fall of French King Louis XV‘s court favourite, Jeanne Vaubernier.
The film’s official synopsis describes Vaubernier as “a young working-class woman hungry for culture and pleasure, who 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.”
