The Cannes Film Festival opened with the film Jeanne du Barry, directed by Maïwenn. The period film, which takes place in Versailles, did not dazzle the spectators.

"I find the film very badly edited and quite ugly in places," says a spectator at the microphone of Europe 1. "It is quite rude anyway on many aspects, especially in the game of the main actors," details another.Johnny Depp as King Louis XV, almost mute, also seems to have lost his court.