Johnny Depp: Critics lukewarm to comeback film Jeanne du Barry
Cannes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65619877
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'Awarding it three stars, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw praised the "watchability" of the film and "spectacular casting" of Depp.
"But Louis and Jeanne are not entirely credible as a love story, perhaps because of the cynicism in which they are both complicit and perhaps because the performances are a little opaque," he continued.
"It's an entertaining spectacle, only partly aware of its own vanity."'
Good on The Guardian for defying my expectations, and not letting narrative/politics determine its praise of Depp (or perhaps the people at The Guardian quite reasonably believe Depp is innocent).
Because critics have an agenda. Depp wasn’t an obvious choice for me until I watched the movie. He is perfect. His French was also impeccable. I don’t know what they did but it worked.
shareHis French was also impeccable.
In this interview -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7eB_GFLI7s -- Depp describes the challenge of making the film in French, describing his own French as 'pidgin French' and emphasising that he's a 'hillbilly from Kentucky.'
But he was married to a French woman for many years, during which time he lived in France -- he owns or owned an entire village in Provence -- and he has two French children... so I think he's probably being a wee bit modest about what his level in the language was before starting work on the film. Not suggesting he must be fluent -- otherwise he'd just say 'I'm fairly fluent' -- but he certainly wouldn't have been starting from scratch or having to read his lines phonetically. share
His role of the king means he needed to speak French with no trace of an English accent which is difficult.
Depp speaking accented French in an interview. There's a suggestion that he memorized the comment about his children:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zNKBy-xc7iI