Maïwenn: ” I ended up making a period film because I fell in love with Jeanne.”
Maïwenn exudes so much inner peace that when I met her, all the gossip around her vanished. It was a very hot Saturday at the end of October when we met at the newly restored 19th century house of Maria Mihăescu (or Mița Biciclista as many know her). Maïwenn was in Bucharest attending the premiere of her latest film, Jeanne du Barry, screened at Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest. Few months before our meeting, I had heard mostly bad things about her, such as how she spit on a journalist in Cannes, or how she is an anti-feminist. Watching her films, I found the latter accusation quite ironic. After all, she has written and directed a film about one of the first feminists the world had ever seen: Comtesse du Barry, maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV.
Title
Jeanne du Barry
Director/ Screenwriter
Maïwenn
Actors
Maïwenn, Johnny Depp, Benjamin Lavernhe
Country
France
Year
2023
Distributor
Independenta Film
Synopsys
The life of Jeanne Bécu who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.
Film producer and founder of ADFR, she dreamed since she was little of having a magazine one day. Alongside her job as editor-in-chief, she writes the interview of the month. She loves animals, jazz music and films festivals.
