ISLAMABAD, May 17th (Online): The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival opened with a French work, Jeanne Du Barry, with Johnny Depp playing King Louis XV. This is sort of a comeback for the actor after his messy legal cases witha former wife, Amber Heard, and a newspaper. Helmed by Maiwenn \u2013 who co-wrote the screenplay and portrays the title character \u2013 the movie played out of competition. (Also read: Brie Larson may not see Johnny Depp’s opening night film Jeanne du Barry at Cannes Film Festival)
\nJeanne is the illegitimate daughter of a monk and a cook, and she educates herself in sophistry and even a good education, thanks to the big aristocrats whom her single mother worked for. When the mother and daughter move to Paris, Jeanne meets King Louis, and it is lust at first sight.<\/p>\n
Maiwenn’s fascination for Jeanne du Barry began after she watched Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film, Marie Antoinette. She said at the start of the movie. \u201cWhen I saw Asia Argento as Madame du Barry, I immediately felt complicity with her,\u201d she says. \u201cThe more I read about her, the more it confirmed this and it hasn\u2019t stopped. I saw facets of my own personality in Jeanne du Barry,\u201d she adds. \u201cI believe in freedom \u2014 I think it is what is most sexy, most seductive, most charismatic. And I\u2019ve always loved marginal people.\u201d<\/p>\n
As part of the opening night, American actor Michael Douglas received his honorary Palme d’Or. Actress Uma Thurman, who introduced Douglas called him a \u201ctitan\u201d and \u201cforever star\u2019 before he received a prolonged standing ovation as he took the stage. \u00b4There are hundreds of film festivals all over the world but there\u2019s only one Cannes,\u2019 said Douglas.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day at the jury press conference, Swedish director Ruben Ostlund, who has two Palme d’Ors for The Square in 2017 and Triangle of Sadness in 2022, said: \u201cThe Golden Palme is the greatest film prize in the world. For me, if I can choose between an Oscar or a Palme d\u2019Or, it\u2019s an easy choice. I\u2019d rather have another Palme than an Oscar.\u201d
\nHe chairs this year’s main Competition jury.<\/p>\n
Ostlund, who received his first Oscar nominations earlier this year for best director and original screenplay for Triangle Of Sadness, said the Academy Awards come with a different \u201cbrand around increasing viewership for the nominated films\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started film school in the 1990s. A teacher at that school, their reference was always going back to Cannes,\u201d said the director. \u201cI look at myself as a European film director; I\u2019m part of a European tradition. The role of cinema we have in European culture is something I\u2019m willing to fight for, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD, May 17th (Online): The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival opened with a French work, Jeanne Du Barry, with Johnny Depp playing King Louis XV. This is sort of a comeback for the actor after his messy legal cases witha former wife, Amber […]<\/p>\n
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