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Jeanne du Barry is a 2023 historical drama film written, directed and produced by Maïwenn and starring herself and Johnny Depp in the leading roles.

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Jeanne du Barry is a 2023 historical drama film.
The film was written, directed and produced by Maïwenn.
In the movie Johnny Depp and Maïwenn star in the leading roles.
It also stars Pierre Richard, Benjamin Lavernhe, Noémie Lvovsky, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud and India Hair.
Its plot centres on Madame du Barry, who uses her intelligence and allure to rise in society. She becomes King Louis XV’s favourite, they fall in love, and against all propriety and etiquette, du Barry moves to Versailles, where her relationship with the king scandalises the court.
Jeanne du Barry is a co-production between France, Belgium and the United Kingdom.
It was produced by Why Not Productions and Depp’s IN.2 Film, a European sister company to his L.A.-based Infinitum Nihil and is distributed by Le Pacte.
Its budget was $22.4 million.
Jeanne du Barry was one of the most expensive French films of 2022, one of only three French films with a budget over 10 million euros.
The film had its world premiere as the opening film at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival on 16 May 2023.
It was released theatrically in France on the same day by Le Pacte, 15 months in advance of its scheduled streaming release on Netflix in France.
The film is set to be released in theaters in the United States by Vertical Entertainment.
First film Johnny Depp has starred in where he speaks entirely in French.
Opening film at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.
Johnny Depp’s first film in three years. His last being Minamata (2020).
Maïwenn co-wrote, co-produced, directed and starred as the title role in the film.
Received a 7 minute standing ovation at the Cannes festival.
Principal photography started on 26 July 2022 in Versailles and other regions of Paris for 11 weeks.
On 10 August 2022, the first teaser image of Depp in the role of Louis XV was shared by Why Not Productions.
Filming wrapped in mid-October 2022.
On 1 November 2022, Wild Bunch International unveiled the key territories which had acquired rights for the drama. Another image of Depp in the role was shared on the same day.
Maïwenn gave her first interview about the film to Le Journal du Dimanche on 31 December 2022. In it, she mentions that her staging for the film “is neither pop nor rock”, unlike Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, but that she has taken liberties with it and that she is expecting “purists” to criticise her.
She further commented on Depp’s ability to transform into a character, calling him “a real chameleon” who really likes transformation.
Regarding the dialogue and the fact that Depp was acting for the first time in French, Maïwenn commented that her film does not use dialogue extensively and that Depp’s expressiveness was highly impressive to her, likening it to that of a silent film actor.
For the first time in her career, Maïwenn decided to use 35 mm film cameras to shoot a motion picture, using Stanley Kubrick’s film Barry Lyndon as a template for what she wanted to achieve visually
Directing the film while also playing the role of one of its protagonists, Madame du Barry, was challenging for Maïwenn, who decided, at the end of shooting, that she never would again act in a film that she is directing.
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar France, Maïwenn revealed that she had been wanting to direct a film about Madame du Barry since 2006, after seeing Sofia Coppola’s film Marie Antoinette.
She was particularly drawn to the character of Madame du Barry, played by Asia Argento, and soon after, started reading biographies about her. For the next ten years, Maïwenn played with the idea of one day directing a period film, whose protagonist would be Madame du Barry, remaining still very unsure about it, fearing that she would not be able to create a film comparable to others made on the subject.
After reading many biographies about du Barry and watching a lot of period films such as Stanley Kubrik’s Barry Lyndon, Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette and Albert Serra’s The Death of Louis XIV, Maïwenn started creating the outline for her own film.
She reached the conclusion that these three films, which she loves, have in common the fact that they the use of dialogue.