Arte France Cinéma have thrown their support behind a quintet of projects and among them we find Lucile Hadzihalilovic re-teaming with Marion Cotillard for La Tour de glace La Tour de glace. Set to shoot in January and February next year in both France and Germany, this fourth feature film is set in the 1970s. Cotillard was cast in Hadzihalilovic’s debut back in 2004 (Innocence). By the sounds of the synopsis it looks like the central character will be a young actress. Co-written along with Geoff Cox (who helped with Évolution (2015) and Earwig (2021)), from her high mountain village, 15-year-old Jeanne dreams of leaving her childhood orphanage and discovering the world.…...
- 6/22/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
After making its debut at the Cannes Film Festival last month, Johnny Depp’s comeback film “Jeanne du Barry” has been scooped up by Vertical, which acquired North American distribution rights to the period drama.
“Jeanne du Barry” stars French actress Maïwenn (who also directed and co-wrote the screenplay) as the titular Jeanne du Barry, with Depp playing King Louis Xv.
“‘Jeanne du Barry’ follows Jeanne Vaubernier (Maïwenn), a working-class woman determined to climb the social ladder, using her charms to escape her impoverished life,” reads the film’s synopsis. “Her lover, the Comte du Barry (Melvil Poupaud), wishes to present her to King Louis Xv (Depp) and orchestrates a meeting through the influential Duke of Richelieu (Pierre Richard). The encounter goes far beyond his expectations for it was love at first sight for the King and Jeanne. Through this ravishing courtesan, the king rediscovers his appetite for life and...
“Jeanne du Barry” stars French actress Maïwenn (who also directed and co-wrote the screenplay) as the titular Jeanne du Barry, with Depp playing King Louis Xv.
“‘Jeanne du Barry’ follows Jeanne Vaubernier (Maïwenn), a working-class woman determined to climb the social ladder, using her charms to escape her impoverished life,” reads the film’s synopsis. “Her lover, the Comte du Barry (Melvil Poupaud), wishes to present her to King Louis Xv (Depp) and orchestrates a meeting through the influential Duke of Richelieu (Pierre Richard). The encounter goes far beyond his expectations for it was love at first sight for the King and Jeanne. Through this ravishing courtesan, the king rediscovers his appetite for life and...
- 6/7/2023
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
“Jeanne Du Barry,” the latest film from French director Maïwenn that stars Johnny Depp, has found a North American distributor in Vertical following its Cannes debut, an individual with knowledge told IndieWire.
“Jeanne Du Barry” was the opening night film at the Cannes Film Festival last month, where it received a 7-minute standing ovation from the crowd in the Palais. But it was a controversial choice because of Depp’s continued career rehab following the highly publicized defamation trial between him and ex-wife Amber Heard, but also because of a report against Maïwenn that accused her of assaulting a journalist, an accusation she later admitted to.
The film stars Depp as the French King Louis Xv in a supporting role and primarily follows Maïwenn as Jeanne Vaubernier, an 18th Century French working class woman who became King Louis Xv’s lover. Here’s the full synopsis:
“Jeanne du Barry” follows...
“Jeanne Du Barry” was the opening night film at the Cannes Film Festival last month, where it received a 7-minute standing ovation from the crowd in the Palais. But it was a controversial choice because of Depp’s continued career rehab following the highly publicized defamation trial between him and ex-wife Amber Heard, but also because of a report against Maïwenn that accused her of assaulting a journalist, an accusation she later admitted to.
The film stars Depp as the French King Louis Xv in a supporting role and primarily follows Maïwenn as Jeanne Vaubernier, an 18th Century French working class woman who became King Louis Xv’s lover. Here’s the full synopsis:
“Jeanne du Barry” follows...
- 6/7/2023
- by Brian Welk
- Indiewire
If you thought the sudden move of French director Burno Dumont from austere drama to increasingly wacky comedy in the TV miniseries P'tit Quinquin and last year’s farce Slack Bay was a shock, prepare yourself for Jeannette, an electro-musical dance film on the adolescent life of Joan of Arc. Opening with little Jeannette (Lise Leplat Prudhomme) humming prayers to herself along the river Meuse (in fact, Dumont re-locates the story to his beloved northern France), suddenly the music swells, she belts one out—”there is nothing, there is never anything, but perdition!”—and ends it all with a handspring and splits. “Why do you do that?” asks a passing child, but the answer is obvious: lonesome, poor, in love with charity and full of doubts, Jeannette bounds with childhood’s pent up energy and calls forth her questions, protests and passion in bodily, soulful fervor. With this beginning, Dumont...
- 9/13/2017
- MUBI
Maverick French director Bruno Dumont returns after Slack Bay with this baffling, deliberately disconcerting musical that won’t have your toes tapping
One of the Cannes film festival’s favourite aging enfant terribles, especially since Lars Von Trier seems to be still banned for life, Bruno Dumont returns to the Croisette this year with his latest assiette de wackitude, Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc. Hopefully, distributors outside of France will see sense and drop the formality of the subtitle and just rename this Jeanette! – because it is, of all things, a musical about young Jeanne d’Arc and everyone knows musicals are better with exclamation points.
Having dipped a toe into more commercial waters with his last two outing – miniseries Li’l Quinquin and the star-led feature Slack Bay, both black but broad comedies – Dumont returns to more familiar sombre, avant-garde territory with this adaptation of a play...
One of the Cannes film festival’s favourite aging enfant terribles, especially since Lars Von Trier seems to be still banned for life, Bruno Dumont returns to the Croisette this year with his latest assiette de wackitude, Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc. Hopefully, distributors outside of France will see sense and drop the formality of the subtitle and just rename this Jeanette! – because it is, of all things, a musical about young Jeanne d’Arc and everyone knows musicals are better with exclamation points.
Having dipped a toe into more commercial waters with his last two outing – miniseries Li’l Quinquin and the star-led feature Slack Bay, both black but broad comedies – Dumont returns to more familiar sombre, avant-garde territory with this adaptation of a play...
- 5/21/2017
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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