Jeanne du Barry (2023) on Netflix
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Jeanne Vaubernier, the illegitimate daughter of a cook named Anne, is expelled from her convent and from a widow's household in Paris. A duke plans to present her to King Louis XV.
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- IMDb6.7/1016,990 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes45%
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Plot summary
In 1743, Jeanne Vaubernier is born illegitimate, the daughter of a Catholic monk and of Anne, a cook in the household of Monsieur Dumousseaux, who has her educated in a convent. The convent expels her for reading erotic books. In Paris, the widow Madame de la Garde employs her as a reader, and Jeanne polishes her wit to match that of aristocrats, until Madame de la Garde expels her for sleeping with her sons. Jeanne charms wealthy lovers as a courtesan and meets a count whose courtier friend, the Duke of Richelieu, wants to introduce her to Louis XV, the king of France.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jeanne du Barry (2023)
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- Maïwenn wrote Jeanne du Barry with an unnamed French actor in mind, but after three years of writing he turned the script down within minutes, saying "cinema is dead" and that "only Netflix" remained; the next French actor she offered it to had health problems and could not play it.
- After Johnny Depp lost his libel trial against The Sun in November 2020, Maïwenn was unsure whether he would stay with the project; when she called him she found he feared she would no longer want him, and she told him the film would not go on without him.
- Johnny Depp agreed to play Louis XV without reading the script himself, accepting immediately after his assistant and friend Stephen Deuters, a screenwriter and producer, read it and fell in love with it.
- Maïwenn found it so challenging to direct the film while playing Jeanne du Barry herself that, at the end of the shoot, she decided she would never again act in a film she was directing.
- For the first time in her career, Maïwenn shot a feature on 35 mm film, using Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon as the visual template for what she wanted to achieve.
