But she also has a, um, kind heart. At a royal dinner she is given Zamor, an enslaved person, as a gift. She befriends him. What fun they have running through the halls of Versailles! She also ...

“No,” he replies. “It’s Versailles.” It’s just too bad that there’s not more grotesquerie in the film. “Jeanne du Barry” might have set out to do that, but it settled for pretty.

Editor’s Note: This review originally published during the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Vertical Entertainment will release “ Jeanne du Barry ” on Friday, May 3.

‘Jeanne du Barry’ Review: Johnny Depp Makes a Decent, if Distracting Match for ‘My King’ Director Maïwenn Reviewed at Cinéma du Panthéon, Paris, May 12, 2023.

Costume drama, freely inspired by the life of Jeanne du Barry, Louis XV’s last royal mistress at the Court of Versailles, after Madame de Pompadour, has sold to multiple key territories.

Johnny Depp will be playing the controversial King Louis XV in the upcoming French period drama "Jeanne du Barry," Deadline exclusively reported on Aug. 10.

The illegitimate daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne du Barry uses her intelligence and beauty to rise through the ranks of 18th Century Paris high society and Louis XV’s Court at Versailles.