Almost three years after ADN – released in theaters in October 2020 just hours before the second imprisonment – Maven opens the 76th Cannes Film Festival with Jean du Barry’s sixth film. In this ambitious, big-budget French project, she slips into the shoes of a countess presented to King Louis XI, played on screen by Johnny Depp.
This is the first time that the actor and director presented a film at Cannes without competition. In 2011, he won the Jury Prize with Polisse. Four years later, it was one of his actors, Emmanuel Bercot, who was awarded the Mont Roy Interpretation Prize by the festival.
Has this new challenge won the filmmaker national press?
World: “The fine line between the two worlds reserved for this heroine works slightly to the detriment of the other characters, even the dim and silent king, played by Johnny Depp, is not without humor.“
2/5
Le Figaro: “Maven’s film lives up to expectations. Its main virtue is not the smell of dust. Life is spinning. We are here.“
4/5
Telerama: “With nothing to be ashamed of, with as much bravado as narcissism, Maven lends herself beautifully to the role, standing her ground and blending perfectly into her character as an ambitious autodidact. Willing, curious about everything and finally generous.”
3/5
release: “A huge business of histrionics in a cloud of powder and wig, with the first-time director giving it all the coverage..”
2/5
Description: “Reinventing himself as a filmmaker, Maven signs a controlled film that combines classical form and contemporary subject matter, with Johnny Depp stunning in Louis XV.“
3/5
Paris: “In “Jeanne du Barry,” which opens at the Cannes Film Festival this Tuesday night and which runs concurrently in theaters, Maven succeeds in a classic yet very modern and fully populated film..”
5/5
QG: “In an ironic departure from the codes of historical film, Jeanne du Barry displays her broad contradictions for two hours without departing from them.“
2/5
Sunday Journal: “The film directly touches the heart with its tragic romanticism, lyricism and choppy dialogues that convey the brutal modernity.. “
5/5
Unbreakables: “The most expensive element of the series is Johnny Depp, made to play Louis XV, a disillusioned showman at the heart of French cinema – if the film has a reference, it’s more likely to be lost in translation than Marie-Antoinette. . Rarely have we seen an actor so absent from himself as if he was mentally staying in his dressing room..”
1/5
Month: “Casting the role, actor and director Maven manages to breathe modernity and freedom into a classic and slightly starchy film.“
3/5
Mariana: “It’s a shame that Maven is so confident in her portrayal of the lead role that she puts herself so smugly on stage in the middle of every frame. Other characters and actors are suddenly almost relegated to the status of figures and extras.“
2/5
Northern Voice: “Maven loves nothing more than telling her own story. This self-assertive self-centeredness can prove irritating… or fascinating when he dares to step aside to find his reflection in the cinema mirror. Witness this authentic romantic film, a very beautiful echo of a favorite that never settles down..”
4/5
Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry, in theaters May 16.
Source: Allocine
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