Cannes 2023 will probably be a colorful film festival with the arrival of several American stars including Johnny Depp.

Cannes 2023 : Johnny Depp, Maiwenn, Leonardo DiCaprio and Harrison ford will be at the festival

Louis XV’s favorite

« Jeanne du Barry« , the latest film by director Maïwenn, will have its world premiere on May 16, at the opening of the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The film, where she plays the role of Louis XV’s favorite, alongside Johnny Depp, will be released the same day. Jeanne du Barry tells the story of a woman from the people, embodied by Maïwenn herself, who uses her charms to rise socially. Until meeting Louis XV, interpreted by Johnny Depp, therefore, for whom the commoner who has become noble in the meantime has a huge crush on love at first sight. The subject of the film, even far from our contemporary era, narrates a complex love story while carrying behind it a certain ideology of morality and feminism. Also in the cast, Benjamin Lavernhe, Melvil Poupaud, Pierre Richard, Pascal Greggory and India Hair.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese will in Cannes too

The film will also mark the big return to the screen of Johnny Depp, after the highly publicized legal soap opera which pitted him against his former wife Amber Heard, against a backdrop of accusations of domestic violence and then mutual accusations of defamation.
From Las Vegas Paranoia to Pirates of the Caribbean, Johnny Depp, 59, has been on screen several times at Cannes, where in 1997 he presented his own film as a director, The Brave. The 76 Cannes Film Festival will take place from Tuesday May 16 to Saturday May 27. This edition will also see the world premiere screening of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, starring Harrison Ford. The Cannes 2023 Film Festival will also welcome Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese. The film duo will come to present, in world preview, the film Killers of the Flower Moon. A feature film which will be released in theaters on October 18 in France, but which will also be offered on the Apple TV + platform. Alongside them on the red carpet, the great Robert de Niro, also in the cast.