In 1761, when she was twenty-four years old and without a penny to her name, Jeanne Bécu addressed one of her letters to a “dear friend” and even went to say that she loved him. Then she cut to the chase: “I grew tired of being a mere shopgirl and wished to be my own mistress so to speak and wanted to be taken care of.” She begins to say: “Because Jeanne du Barry will not increase your tenement rent anymore…”
The stranger decided not to take the offer, notwithstanding the letter showcasing Madame du Barry’s strive as whom history would later name. She was born to a monastery and a cook. Not the best beginnings. She was vulnerable and needed a very strong person to defend her. Jean-Baptiste du Barry eventually became her protector, She was latter presented to King Louis the XV and moved to his residence at Versailles as his mistress. More largely than life artists narrative.
What needs to be asked, however, is which history? Does the account of Madame du Barry in any way shed some truths or help in understanding an event? I would like to think that it does. The sad thing about ‘Jeanne du Barry’, the film by French director/actress Maïween, dutifully eyeing Johnny Depp as King Louis XV and hayes back wistory offended does depth painless Biography controversially deeper.Install And Repair Franklin Traffic Guy.
While it is true that ‘Jeanne du Barry’ is a film which is pleasing to the eye, it is unsatisfactory in that it does not add stock to the out-dated clichés. Laurent Dailland takes full advantage of those fine rooms and beautiful battlefields with all their naivety. Sex and excellent costume designer jürgen Doering deserves a lot of admiration for those lavish costumes. However, the precise folds of the story have come out, sunk, and are trumped up to be much less ordinary than the profiles of the enamored against the beautiful landscapes.
So the film begins with voice-over, an omniscient voice telling us Clementine’s childhood rather as a series of flash cards. We see her as a kid, and jump ten seconds forward, voila, a teenage girl who refuses to undress and pose as an artist’s model. A further ten seconds, she is thrown out of her job as ladies companion for sleeping with the two sons of the woman she worked for. A further ten seconds later, she is the most famous courtesan in the heart of the city of Paris.
How come this transformation occurred at all? There is no such bio on this woman (the one provided in the letter above) that shows how she left no stone unturned to ensure she lived.
Once taken in at the home of the Comte du Barry Arranged by La Borde, one of King Louis’s top advisers (and, let’s face it, pimps). He proposes to arrange an audience with the King. La Borde makes sure that Jeanne learns all the royal mannerisms and other things appropriately (one is reminded of Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman,” who was taught table protocol). A doctor uses a speculum on Jeanne from the time of the Spanish Inquisition’s torture. Vaginal examination. All is ok with the vagina, apparently. And so, the so-called ‘affair’ of Jeanne and the King begins.
Because it’s Versailles, “affair” has a different meaning. The women known as royal favorites have always been around but Jeanne du Barry was no Pompadour. Pompadour was a leading figure in both creative and political circles in all sorts of relation with the King. Judith was not liked at the court, and the king’s daughters alluringly rejected her. In the movie “Jeanne du Barry,” the relationship of Jeanne and the King is a very big thing for the two, who appreciate and comprehend each other very well. Why or what was the connection or relationship between them? Hence, one wonders, was it, shall we say, the charm of the big man or treasures that dazzled Jeanne – was it attention or jewelry, and where did its focus lie? That date itself, of overturning of pomple pour Louis ce qui est plus louable at the time was no outlandish, there’s a troubling insensitivity to over disabusing. What is the relationship? He made up his mind, supposing any of us were naive enough to need such explanations.
Depp was a controversial choice of actor, probably also one of the reasons Maïwenn was equally controversial when she decided to cast him. He is less critical about his best looks and best hats, and merely sleeps through the execution of the role. Maïwenn’s Jeanne is depicted as a blank slate in a new balm of playful sexiness, jocular wit and soft tenderness. Most characters seem to be unblemished and have no restrictions. What with the dullness of the portrayal, nothing in particular stands out. The actor who has the most special supplementary work, the sad little boy Borde in the film, will be Lavernhe, who lightens up the rather dull role with tints of fun and sweetness.
The way Zamor, the slave child offered as a gift from Louis to Jeanne as a human being- like inside a box tied with bow, is depicted in the movie is also disturbing but without criticism. Ibrahim Yaffa and Djibril Djimo play Zamor when he is a child and a teenager respectively, and the romance between him and Jeanne is portrayed in a very idealistic and juvenile perspective, with them running around the palace and the more free thinking Jeanne, looking down upon the racially biased court. This is trivial, let alone deceitful especially when one knows the historical background. However, when the revolution occurred ten years later, Zamor became a Jacobin and advocated for the arrest of Jeanne, criticizing her adoration for the aristocracy, her expensive vices, and how she ‘possessed’ him. In the end Zamor was the one who ensured the overthow of Jeanne Du Barry. His decapitation was in the year 1793.
At the end of the film, the narrator tells us Zamor did what he did because “he was compelled by despair or vengeance.” “Vengeance”? Now this smells of ‘he turned on his benefactor’. This is the ‘tell’, the dead giveaway as to what the film intends the audience to think of Jeanne. It appears that “out of justified rage” is better suited to explain why Zamor did what he did. “Jeanne du Barry” is less concerned about history than the romance of two nameless people dressed in fancy clothes and posed in fancy rooms, and the love of two fancy people dressed in pretty clothes which would all be swept away by the realities of life in just a few years’ time.
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