Despite controversies, Maïwenn and Johnny Depp managed to enthuse the Croisette. Jeanne du Barry, screened Tuesday night at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, received a standing ovation.
A biopic as personal as it is successful on the extraordinary destiny of a woman born in poverty who invests her power of seduction in her social ascent. The biopic of the last courtesan of King Louis XV illuminates an unknown page in the history of France and turns out to be a bluffing topicality.