His Louis is a taciturn, melancholy but commanding figure with a dark side. It has more in common with Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon than it does Pirates of the Caribbean, with Depp giving one of his more restrained and effective performances as the king who falls in love with a courtesan. Many have asked: what on earth is Cannes doing?Īgainst the odds, Jeanne du Barry has turned out to be a subtle and well-crafted costume drama with plenty of satirical bite. He has since filed a complaint against her for assault. Then, not long before the festival started, Maiwenn admitted that she had spat in the face of a journalist. Its writer-director-star Maiwenn first caused consternation by choosing Johnny Depp to play Louis XV, in what would be his first acting role since his hugely acrimonious divorce from Amber Heard – she famously accused him of domestic violence. Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, Lewis’ The Great Divorce will change the way we think about good. An extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment, Lewis’s revolutionary idea in the The Great Divorce is that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. This year’s opening film in Cannes has been so engulfed in scandal that few had hope it’d be any good. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christian allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven.
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