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Summary Jeanne Vaubernier (Maïwenn) is a working-class woman determined to climb the social ladder, using her charms to escape her impoverished life. Her lover, the Comte du Barry (Melvil Poupaud), wishes to present her to King Louis XV (Johnny Depp) and orchestrates a meeting through the influential Duke of Richelieu (Pierre Richard). The enco...

Directed By: Maïwenn

Written By: Maïwenn, Marion Pin, Teddy Lussi-Modeste, Nicolas Livecchi

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Jeanne du Barry

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
48
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Summary Jeanne Vaubernier (Maïwenn) is a working-class woman determined to climb the social ladder, using her charms to escape her impoverished life. Her lover, the Comte du Barry (Melvil Poupaud), wishes to present her to King Louis XV (Johnny Depp) and orchestrates a meeting through the influential Duke of Richelieu (Pierre Richard). The enco...

Directed By: Maïwenn

Written By: Maïwenn, Marion Pin, Teddy Lussi-Modeste, Nicolas Livecchi

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
48
30% Positive
7 Reviews
52% Mixed
12 Reviews
17% Negative
4 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
48
30% Positive
7 Reviews
52% Mixed
12 Reviews
17% Negative
4 Reviews

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88
May 6, 2024
There’s so much to look at and think about that it is sometimes difficult to concentrate on the story, but a plot does emerge in the capable hands of Maïwenn, who keeps the facts straight while keeping one of the most shocking chapters in French history alive and kicking.
By Rex Reed FULL REVIEW
67
Apr 30, 2024
It’s visually lovely. But there’s a hollowness at the core of Jeanne du Barry, despite the obvious talents of its writer, director and star, the almost absurdly watchable French performer Maïwenn, who approaches this tragic-comic 18th century fact-based story with a sympathetic view towards its protagonist without probing too deeply into anyone’s motivations.
By Kim Hughes FULL REVIEW
60
May 2, 2024
Jeanne du Barry is a beautiful story, but lacks emphasis or innovation, which is essential in a period drama's success.
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50
May 1, 2024
It’s hard to know what Maiwenn was trying to accomplish here, besides giving herself a juicy and an entirely sympathetic historically-based role. She achieves that, and she’s good in the film — Maiwenn always is — but the “what’s the point of all this” question takes “Jeanne du Barry” down just a notch.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
40
Apr 21, 2024
It’s a curiously inert affair: constrained, corseted, passionless and saddled with a lumpen, Depp-shaped deadweight where there should be a pulse-racing core of power and desire.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
40
May 16, 2023
It’s mostly handsomely shot, with painterly vistas of the French countryside and lots of dazzling Versailles interiors. But the central relationship never convinces – it all just feels like a performance, put on for the benefit of the courtiers and by extension, us.
By Robbie Collin FULL REVIEW
16
May 17, 2023
If it wasn’t for the highly-publicized scandals that envelop “Jeanne du Barry,” it is likely the film would make a swift turn from the red carpet into ostracism, and while the hubbub certainly delays the process, it will do little to prevent Maïwenn’s dire latest from the merciless hands of oblivion.
By Rafaela Sales Ross FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Why Not Productions, France 2 Cinéma, France 3 Cinéma, La Petite Reine, Impala Productions, Les Films de Batna, IN.2 Film, Les Films du Fleuve, World Vision Films, OKKO, Red Sea Film Festival Foundation, Netflix, France Télévisions, Casa Kafka Pictures, La Région Île-de-France
Release Date May 2, 2024
Duration 1 h 57 m
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Website https://fragmanizlesene.com/jeanne-du-barry-filmi/
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Awards

César Awards, France
• 2 Nominations
Palic Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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