By PTI
CANNES: The Cannes Film Festival crimson carpet sprang to life with the premiere of the Louis XV interval drama “Jeanne du Barry”, with Johnny Depp, as a result of the French Riviera movie pageant launched a star-studded and doubtless controversy-rife 76th model.
Throngs of onlookers shouted ‘Johnny!’ as Depp, in purple-hued sunglasses, signed autographs and edged once more into the spotlight following his explosive trial ultimate 12 months with ex-wife Amber Heard.
‘Jeanne du Barry’, directed and co-starring Maiwenn, has been billed as Depp’s comeback though his distinguished presence at Cannes has been hotly debated.
A coterie of stars streamed down Cannes’ well-known crimson carpet for the opening night ceremony on Tuesday, along with Brie Larson, Uma Thurman, Gong Li, Elle Fanning, Naomi Campbell, Catherine Deneuve (who graces this 12 months’s pageant poster) and a blue-haired Helen Mirren, who carried a fan labeled #worthit.
During the opening ceremony, Michael Douglas acquired an honorary Palme d’Or, collectively together with his partner, Catherine Zeta-Jones and their daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas, wanting on from the viewers.
“I’m even older than the festival,” acknowledged Douglas, 78, after receiving a warmth standing ovation.
Douglas and Deneuve formally declared open a pageant that ensures a Cote d’Azur buffet of spectacle, scandal and cinema set to be served over the following 12 days.
It’s unspooling in opposition to the backdrop of labour unrest.
Protests which have roiled France in present months over changes to its pension system are consider to run all through the pageant, albeit at a distance from the pageant’s principal hub.
Meanwhile, an ongoing strike by screenwriters in Hollywood might need unpredictable outcomes on the French Riviera pageant.
“My wife is currently picketing with my six-month-old, strapped to her chest,” Paul Dano, a juror, acknowledged Tuesday, referencing Zoe Kazan. I could be there on the picket line after I get once more home.
But with a pageant lined with some much-anticipated big-budget motion pictures, along with James Mangold’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of the Destiny and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, the get collectively is sure to go on, regardless.
Stars set to hit Cannes’ crimson carpet inside the subsequent week and a half embrace Natalie Portman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Sean Penn, Alicia Vikander, Scarlett Johansson and Abel Tesfaye additionally known as the Weeknd.
Earlier Tuesday, the jury that may decide the pageant’s prime prize, the Palme d’Or, was launched.
Swedish filmmaker Ruben Ostlund, a two-time Palme winner who ultimate 12 months obtained for the social satire “The Triangle of Sadness”, is presiding over a jury along with Dano, Larson, Argentine filmmaker Damian Szifron, Afghan director Atiq Rahimi, French actor Denis Menochet, Moroccan filmmaker Maryam Tourzani, Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni and French director Julia Ducournau, who in 2019 grew to grow to be the second female filmmaker to win the Palme d’Or for Titane.
Ostlund, 49, puzzled whether or not or not he may have been handed the prospect a decade too shortly.
But whereas addressing the press, Ostlund whose The Triangle of Sadness was nominated for best picture on the Academy Awards made it clear the place his allegiances lie.
“If I can choose between an Oscar and a Palme d’Or, it’s an easy choice,” acknowledged Ostlund.
“I would rather have one more (Palme) than have an Oscar. The opening night selection has attracted some controversy.”
Jeanne du Barry, which concurrently opened in French theatres Tuesday, was produced following the much-watched 2022 trial all through which every Depp and Heard accused each other of bodily and verbal abuse.
A civil jury awarded Depp USD 10 million in damages and USD 2 million to Heard. Maiwenn has made headlines simply recently, too.
The French actor-director has been accused of spitting at distinguished French journalist Edwy Plenel.
Earlier this month, she confirmed that she assaulted him in a restaurant.
In remarks to the press Monday, Cannes director Thierry Fremaux defended the choice, praised Depp as an actor and acknowledged he paid no consideration to the trial.
“To tell you the truth, in my life, I only have one rule, it’s the freedom of thinking, the freedom of speech and the freedom to act within a legal framework,” acknowledged Fremaux.
If Johnny Depp had been banned from showing in a film, or the film was banned we might not be proper right here talking about it.
CANNES: The Cannes Film Festival crimson carpet sprang to life with the premiere of the Louis XV interval drama “Jeanne du Barry”, with Johnny Depp, as a result of the French Riviera movie pageant launched a star-studded and doubtless controversy-rife 76th model.
Throngs of onlookers shouted ‘Johnny!’ as Depp, in purple-hued sunglasses, signed autographs and edged once more into the spotlight following his explosive trial ultimate 12 months with ex-wife Amber Heard.
‘Jeanne du Barry’, directed and co-starring Maiwenn, has been billed as Depp’s comeback though his distinguished presence at Cannes has been hotly debated.googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );
A coterie of stars streamed down Cannes’ well-known crimson carpet for the opening night ceremony on Tuesday, along with Brie Larson, Uma Thurman, Gong Li, Elle Fanning, Naomi Campbell, Catherine Deneuve (who graces this 12 months’s pageant poster) and a blue-haired Helen Mirren, who carried a fan labeled #worthit.
During the opening ceremony, Michael Douglas acquired an honorary Palme d’Or, collectively together with his partner, Catherine Zeta-Jones and their daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas, wanting on from the viewers.
“I’m even older than the festival,” acknowledged Douglas, 78, after receiving a warmth standing ovation.
Douglas and Deneuve formally declared open a pageant that ensures a Cote d’Azur buffet of spectacle, scandal and cinema set to be served over the following 12 days.
It’s unspooling in opposition to the backdrop of labour unrest.
Protests which have roiled France in present months over changes to its pension system are consider to run all through the pageant, albeit at a distance from the pageant’s principal hub.
Meanwhile, an ongoing strike by screenwriters in Hollywood might need unpredictable outcomes on the French Riviera pageant.
“My wife is currently picketing with my six-month-old, strapped to her chest,” Paul Dano, a juror, acknowledged Tuesday, referencing Zoe Kazan. I could be there on the picket line after I get once more home.
But with a pageant lined with some much-anticipated big-budget motion pictures, along with James Mangold’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of the Destiny and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, the get collectively is sure to go on, regardless.
Stars set to hit Cannes’ crimson carpet inside the subsequent week and a half embrace Natalie Portman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Sean Penn, Alicia Vikander, Scarlett Johansson and Abel Tesfaye additionally known as the Weeknd.
Earlier Tuesday, the jury that may decide the pageant’s prime prize, the Palme d’Or, was launched.
Swedish filmmaker Ruben Ostlund, a two-time Palme winner who ultimate 12 months obtained for the social satire “The Triangle of Sadness”, is presiding over a jury along with Dano, Larson, Argentine filmmaker Damian Szifron, Afghan director Atiq Rahimi, French actor Denis Menochet, Moroccan filmmaker Maryam Tourzani, Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni and French director Julia Ducournau, who in 2019 grew to grow to be the second female filmmaker to win the Palme d’Or for Titane.
Ostlund, 49, puzzled whether or not or not he may have been handed the prospect a decade too shortly.
But whereas addressing the press, Ostlund whose The Triangle of Sadness was nominated for best picture on the Academy Awards made it clear the place his allegiances lie.
“If I can choose between an Oscar and a Palme d’Or, it’s an easy choice,” acknowledged Ostlund.
“I would rather have one more (Palme) than have an Oscar. The opening night selection has attracted some controversy.”
Jeanne du Barry, which concurrently opened in French theatres Tuesday, was produced following the much-watched 2022 trial all through which every Depp and Heard accused each other of bodily and verbal abuse.
A civil jury awarded Depp USD 10 million in damages and USD 2 million to Heard. Maiwenn has made headlines simply recently, too.
The French actor-director has been accused of spitting at distinguished French journalist Edwy Plenel.
Earlier this month, she confirmed that she assaulted him in a restaurant.
In remarks to the press Monday, Cannes director Thierry Fremaux defended the choice, praised Depp as an actor and acknowledged he paid no consideration to the trial.
“To tell you the truth, in my life, I only have one rule, it’s the freedom of thinking, the freedom of speech and the freedom to act within a legal framework,” acknowledged Fremaux.
If Johnny Depp had been banned from showing in a film, or the film was banned we might not be proper right here talking about it.