Johnny Depp comeback: ‘Jeanne du Barry’ met with mediocre reviews at Cannes – National | 24CA News
Johnny Depp is again, however critics aren’t thrilled with the star’s newest efficiency.
Depp, 59, appeared on the opening evening of the Cannes International Film Festival on Tuesday for a screening of his new French-language movie, Jeanne du Barry, during which he performs the previous King of France Louis XV.
King Louis XV is the primary film function Depp has stepped into since successful a high-profile defamation lawsuit towards his ex-wife Amber Heard final yr. He sued Heard over a Washington Post op-ed during which she referred to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” Depp was awarded US$10 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages.
Almost a yr later, Depp stood earlier than a cheering crowd at Cannes, who gave the teary-eyed actor a seven-minute standing ovation after the movie’s screening.
Depp coyly winked on the digicam within the room and appeared grateful because the French viewers proved they’re nonetheless head over heels for the American actor.
However, regardless of the festivalgoers’ reactions, critics have printed tepid critiques about each Jeanne du Barry and Depp’s efficiency.
According to a Variety critic, although the movie “demands to be taken seriously,” Depp fell brief and appeared “strangely uncomfortable in the role — adequate but not especially engaged.”
“Depp’s the kind of player who delivers practically every performance with a wink, so it’s odd that even when his Louis is actually supposed to be winking (at Jeanne), the sparkle isn’t there,” wrote Peter Debruge.
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film a middling three-star evaluation. He known as the movie “an entertaining spectacle, only partly aware of its own vanity.” As for the performing, Bradshaw wrote that Depp was higher than a merely stunt-casted actor, however claimed all the performances have been “a little opaque.”
A evaluation from Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter known as the movie “sumptuously made” however “kind of bland.” He wrote that Depp’s efficiency “offers a few early thrills and then mostly yawns.”
Still, Depp appeared staunch about his religion in Jeanne du Barry — and altogether unbothered by those that have questioned his comeback.
At a press convention for the movie on Wednesday, Depp — who was 42 minutes late to the occasion — stated “abstract whispers” about his private life shouldn’t cloud the movie.
“The majority of what you have been reading the last four or five years … with regard to me and my life, what you’ve read is fantastically, horrifically written fiction,” Depp stated.
Depp was additionally requested if he felt “boycotted” by Hollywood amid the years-long dramas of his defamation lawsuits. (As properly as Heard, Depp additionally sued the British tabloid The Sun over an article was printed calling him a “wife beater.” In 2020, he misplaced the trial when a U.Ok. choose determined The Sun’s claims have been “substantially true.”)
“Did I feel boycotted by Hollywood? You’d have to not have a pulse to feel like, ‘No. None of this is happening. It’s a weird joke,’” Depp stated. “When you’re asked to resign from a film you’re doing because of something that is merely a function of vowels and consonants floating in the air, yes, you feel boycotted.”
Depp was most notably requested to step down from the Harry Potter spin-off franchise Fantastic Beasts. Now, although, he says he’s not excited by returning to studio tasks.
“I don’t feel boycotted by Hollywood, because I don’t think about Hollywood. I don’t have much further need for Hollywood, myself,” Depp continued. “It’s a strange, funny time where everybody would love to be able to be themselves, but they can’t. They must fall in line with the person in front of them. If you want to live that life, I wish you the best.”
Depp’s presence on the Cannes Film Festival has been the topic of fierce debate. Buzz about his attendance has fairly properly usurped all different conversations concerning the competition, particularly on-line. Even actors starring in unrelated movies have needed to face questions on whether or not Depp ought to have been invited to the competition.
Jeanne du Barry is the story of Jeanne Bécu (performed by French actor and the movie’s director, Maïwenn), the illegitimate daughter of a monk and a cook dinner who turns into a social pariah and King Louis XV’s remaining mistress.
— with information from The Associated Press
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