Wednesday May 16, 2023, Maïwenn will return to theaters with the film, Jeanne du Barry. A feature film in which turns, Louis Garrel, Pierre Richard or Johnny Depp! “Jeanne Vaubernier, daughter of the people eager to rise socially, uses her charms to get out of her condition. Her lover Count Du Barry, who is greatly enriched thanks to Jeanne’s lucrative gallantries, wishes to introduce her to the King. He organized the meeting through the influential Duke of Richelieu, which exceeded his expectations: between Louis XV and Jeanne, it was love at first sight… With the courtesan, the King rediscovered his taste for life – so much so that he can no longer do without her and decides to make her his official favorite. Scandal: no one wants a street girl at Court”. indicates the synopsis.
A work that will be presented at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival 2023. The director made the cover of the magazine First in which she recounted having been rejected by a famous actor. She had written for him. “He was adorable. But I didn’t want him to read anything until I had finished”she confided before returning to the charge three years later.
“He explains to me that he has moved on and says to me: ‘Cinema is dead because of morons like you who spend their time watching Netflix’. The conversation will last three minutes! I insist on him asking at least to read the script. But it’s an extremely violent end of inadmissibility when three months later I would discover it on the poster of a stupid comedy “, she continued. New attempt on his part, “We explain to him that he was not in his normal state”. “It’s a beautiful thing that I offered him and I didn’t want to overuse it. I wanted to feel respected”.
But who is it? On social networks, several names are circulating…
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