He cannes film festival announced a few days ago the films that can be seen there during the edition to be held this year 2023. Among all the titles included, it was surprising that we found ‘Jeanne du Barry’the first film starring Johnny Depp since the problems of his private life kept him away from the cinema. Above all because ‘Coup de Chance’the new work of Woody Allenwas discarded, making clear the double standards of the festival.
The Cannes director’s explanation
Thierry Fremaux, current director of the Cannes Film Festival, is very clear that the situation of both films is different. In the case of ‘Jeanne du Barry’ he argues that “I don’t see Maiwenn’s film as a controversial choice at all, because if Johnny Depp had been banned from working it would have been different, but that’s not the case. We only know one thing, it’s the judicial system and I think he won the legal case. But the movie is not about Johnny Depp.“.
So far it makes sense, but it is that the allegations that were made against Allen were also investigated at the time and the authorities ended up choosing not to press charges – from there each one chooses to believe the version they want. Everything returned to the front line due to the #MeToo impulse and Allen has been sidelined from Hollywood. In Cannes they have not wanted to know anything about ‘Coup de Chance’ either, pointing out the following:
We know that if your film is screened in Cannes, the controversy would be unleashed against your film, against the others.
And it is that Fremaux did have the opportunity to see the film, but he was clear that it was not worth it at all to include it in this year’s Festival edition. At least with the new feature film of Roman Polanski they have the explanation that they simply couldn’t see it, but with ‘Coup de Chance’ the comparative grievance with respect to ‘Jeanne du Barry’ is evident.
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