Johnny Depp's 'Jeanne du Barry' to Dazzle as Haifa Film Festival Opener
Johnny Depp, the epitome of cool, takes on King Louis XV in Jeanne du Barry, the opening night film at the 39th Haifa International Film Festival, soon to hit Israeli theaters in September.
The film festival will run this year from September 28 to October 7 at the Haifa Cinematheque and many other theaters in Haifa and will feature hundreds of films from all over the world, as well as the best of recent Israeli cinema.
The Israeli program has already been announced and more information will be coming soon about the rest of the program, which will include movies that have played at the Venice and Toronto film festivals, as well as many other festivals from all over the world.
Guests of previous festivals have included Harvey Keitel, Brian Cox, Willem Dafoe, Brenda Blethyn, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Sophie Marceau, Joseph Fiennes, Paul Giamatti, and Elliott Gould.
Jeanne du Barry, which was the opening-night film of the Cannes Film Festival this year, stars and was directed by Maiwenn, who also directed the films My King and Polisse.
She portrays the title character, the daughter of a cook who became King Louis XV’s favored courtesan in France just before the French Revolution.
For the first time, Depp speaks French for an entire film as he portrays the sometimes thoughtful, sometimes rebellious monarch. The movie is Depp’s first in three years, a period during which he weathered a protracted court battle with his ex-wife, Amber Heard.
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