'Jeanne du Barry' Review - Is it any good?
A review of the new 'Jeanne du Barry' movie starring Maiwenn and Johnny Depp. It is my personal opinion, not an official critic.
0:00 Introduction
0:44 Original idea
1:46 Casting
5:49 The main duo
7:29 The Story
8:44 Supporting characters
12:24 Historical accuracy
13:03 Costumes & visuals
13:30 Comparison with the tv series
14:07 Final thoughts
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I love the actress who was casted for the marie Antoinette role. The dauphin is very underserved tho, he speaks two lines in the whole movie. In real life he didn’t accept her but he was also a kind gentle man, so that would have been a very interesting dinamic for the character
Yes! For a character who is used in the movie as the only royal family member who is decent to Jeanne, he remains a terribly underdeveloped character.
Yep, very much agree to all of this, as we have discussed already! I think one cannot understate how the king was mesmerized by Jeanne's beauty. She was the Marylin Monroe of her time. Both in beauty and controversy.
Yes! I have not thought of that yet but now as you say it, the Marylin comparison is spot on!
As others pointed out - Maiwenn as Madame du Barry is a disaster. Not just because of her utter lack of beauty and youth - she comes off as downright coarse. In her introduction scene you are meant to be overwhelmed by her beauty but she comes off like a terrifying hag instead. As Hanculka13 says this is not about not casting actresses of not perfect beauty, but about casting someone who can embody the historical figure. Its like casting Woody Allen as Muhammad Ali...
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If this was movie about normal couple then I would be glad to see that ordinary, older woman plays the lead role. But it's about du Barry. And sorry Maiwen but you are literally everything but young and exceptionally beautiful which is like... the selling point of madame du Barry? I'm pretty sure that the real king was not checking her out for her education :D
Exactly! Sorry if it is rude to say this but Maiwenn is nowhere near pretty enough for this role. Even if you are an actor-director, you can't play the main role in the movie you direct in every single case. Sometimes you don't fit that role. It's as if Mel Gibson wanted to play the main role in Hacksaw Ridge instead of giving it to Andrew Garfield 😄 At a point he became too old to play the main roles in his films, so he stopped that. Maiwenn obviously doesn't realize the same thing. I also always support the casting of not young (khm, Ridley Scott....) and not exceptionally beautiful actresses, who are usually put in the background in Hollywood, sadly, but there are cases such as this when you can't cast anyone but a young beautiful woman. At the beginning, Jeanne was shown with a book in her hand so much that I thought the movie would obviously play into the "clever poor girl enchants the rich guy" trope, but they didn't even manage to do that, there is not a single dialogue between them that would show how these two bond exactly.
I saw the movie about versailles mistress in youtube, the actress played madame du barry in that documentary movie is alexa giordano, i think she is perfect as madame du barry
I disagree , beauty is in the eye and i think maiwenn is mesmerising, intriguing and oozes sexual attraction. Maybe thats a 🇬🇧 perspective
@patterdale54 I see that Maiwenn has those special, very unconventional, looks that many will find unattractive and several people will find very attractive. But the point is that du Barry was a very CONVENTIONAL beauty of the time, who was the literal beauty standard, who everyone found beautiful and very attractive and gorgeous. A doll-faced perfect blondie. She was the Marilyn Monroe of her time. Maiwenn is anything but the Marylin Monroe of our times.
@@Lily1127channel i get your point, but i guess everything changes over time, i found watching an African lady playing Anne Boleyn hard to find authentic, not racism but then i guess more drama than historical authenticity.
But 25 in her day was 40's today. The movie is smoking hot.
No 25 was not 40 😀 Biology was still biology and a 25 year old was still young looking and without wrinkles. Especially that in that era women knew they had to avoid the sun no matter what (and the UV was not as harmful to the skin as it is today) and not lay in the sun to get fashionably tanned as it is today.
Maiwenn and Depp are delicious...
I loved the casting of Gaia Weiss as Du Barry in the series Marie Antoinette, even though I didn’t like the series.
I didn't even know before that she was French! But she is so great in this role, honestly, she embodied du Barry in this role. Maiwenn didn't even stand a chance 😄
@@Lily1127channel yeah she spoke very good English, I loved her as Ippolita Sforza in the Medici too
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Maiwenn and Depp are " galette " du Moulin de la Galette
She is stunning...❤
Bad casting....inaccurate, and should have done it on Pompadour.
After watching this movie , it was very great and I love any movie as well I love Johnny Depp, he is a wonderful actor..
While they have given it some freedoms with historical accuracy, it was wonderful. I thought Johnny was perfect choice for the king. He was funny and playful with her, but austere and commanding as he was taught to be when he was king. Hu pulled it off very well.
This is not one of Louis XVI most interesting mistresses.
Certainly. Although she was still much more interesting than she seems in the movie imo 😀
This Louis 15th , pay attention !
Ghastly, turgid, boring, and historically inaccurate. No sense of period, and Louis and Jeanne du Barry are woefully miscast !
eh...whatever inaccuracies aside...i can't wait to see this! Love the vibes it's giving off.
I am a movie make-up and hair designer. This woman looks nothing like Du-barry and where most of the time the chosen stars look nothing like their parts, this is awful. A rugged face ,large lips and not even a blonde wig!!! Also Depp never learns his lines and gets his people tell him his lines in his ears.
Thank you for the insight!
Yup. You sound just like A German.
But do you know what a Hungarian sounds like? 😀 Maybe it is just like me and this is the typical Hungarian accent 😀 And it just happens to sound similar to the German accent. Many European accents sound very similar to each other, actually.
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I disagree with every single thing she said. Every single thing.
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@@Lily1127channeltheir is no controversy over JD.. he was fully exonerated. Only misandrists still say this
@@Exor840 Look, I really don't care about Depp and Heard's relationship and their private lives. Private is called private for a reason. So I don't care about it, and I don't follow the latest news and verdicts about them. But obviously I am not living under a rock so I saw many comments on the internet about their whole fight. I know that while Depp was kinda cleared in the trial, but to me it still seems like a controversy because there are many people who take Depp's side and also many who still hate him and think him bad. He is still pretty much canceled in Hollywood. Though it is also said that that is mainly because it is horrible to work with him, he behaves horrible on set, often high or drunk, whatever. I really don't care, but I do think, that there are still controversies about him in public opinions.
@@Lily1127channel u’ve got a hell of a lot to say about a subject u know nothing about and aren’t interested in. Just a big mouth