From Polisse to Jeanne du Barry, here is what we know about Maïwenn’s new film with Johnny Depp, Jeanne du Barry, which will be released in 2023.
Maïwenn’s new film is coming soon! While TF1 Séries Films is rebroadcasting Polisse this evening (the director’s biggest success to date, with more than 2.4 million admissions), here is what we know about Jeanne du Barry, the new feature film by the director, along with Johnny Depp and a huge cast.
A first interview with the director and screenwriter on the subject was published recently, and confirms that the film should inspire a lot of comments. Maïwenn says it bluntly, in Le JDD: “The purists may criticize me, I am preparing for it, but I completely assume the angle I have chosen.” “A good film is above all a work that respects the obsession of its director and who dares to add lyricism, poetry and even humor“, she continues.
The pact Jeanne du Barry, with Maïwenn and Johnny Depp
In addition to directing, Maïwenn slipped into the main character’s corset. About Johnny Depp, who, it is confirmed, will speak French in the film (“my film isn’t very talkative and therefore didn’t have a whole lot of texts to say“), the director talks about her chameleon side: “He really likes to transform, he’s a real chameleon: he’s always very keen on looking for his character“.
If there is no question in this article of rumors about the alleged disagreement between Depp and Maïwenn, the filmmaker indicates that the film was a “very big test“. “I knew this adventure would be a very big test. I’m holding on because Jeanne is more important than anything“, she develops in the columns of the JDD.
I knew that this adventure would be a very big test
Jeanne du Barry film will mark the return of Johnny Depp to the cinema. After an ultra-publicized lawsuit (and a film already shot on the subject) opposing him to his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, the actor returned to the cinema sets last summer for this film shot partly in the Palace of Versailles. The feature film is currently being edited, and has no specific release date. The film certainly poses as a contender for the Cannes or Venice Festival.
Johnny Depp embodies Louis XV and Maïwenn the last favorite of the king. Alongside them, Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Richard, Melvil Poupaud, Noémie Lvovsky, Pascal Greggory and India Hair. This is Johnny Depp’s first shoot in three years and his dismissal from Fantastic Beasts.
Jeanne du Barry presents itself as an ambitious drama, freely inspired by the life of the one who is known as the last mistress of Louis XV at Versailles, after Madame de Pompadour.
Jeanne, daughter of the people eager for culture and pleasures, uses her charms and her intelligence to climb the ladder of society one by one. She becomes the favorite of King Louis XV, who is unaware of her status as a courtesan but finds with her the taste for life. The two fall madly in love. Against all propriety, Jeanne moved to Versailles. And his arrival scandalizes the court… Released in 2023 at the cinema.
Polisse is broadcast this evening at 9 p.m. on TF1 Séries Films.