
The festival’s general delegate Thierry Frémaux defended the decision after Depp’s success in high-profile legal action with his former wife Amber Heard, saying it was not “a controversial choice”, adding: “If Johnny Depp had been banned from working it would have been different, but that’s not the case. While he made little money from his work while he was alive, his paintings now command huge prices, with his 1917 work Nu Couché fetching $170.4m in 2015.ĭepp will shortly be seen as Louis XV in French period drama Jeanne du Barry, directed by and starring Maïwenn, which will have its world premiere on 16 May in the prestigious opening slot at the Cannes film festival. Modigliani died in 1920 aged 35 from tuberculosis, a condition worsened by his erratic lifestyle. Modi seeks advice from his Polish art dealer and friend Léopold Zborowski, but the chaos reaches a crescendo when he’s faced with a collector who could change his life.”īorn into an Italian Jewish family in Livorno, Modigliani moved to Paris in 1906 and became enamoured of the bohemian life his best known works, of nudes with elongated limbs, were mostly painted between 19. But Homecoming harkens back to old radio stories, with its fictional thriller starring actors Catherine Keener, Oscar Isaac, David Schwimmer, Amy Sedaris, and David Cross. According to the film’s producers, Modi “follows a chaotic series of events through the streets and bars of war-torn Paris in 1916”, during which Modigliani is “on the run from the police desire to end his career and leave the city is dismissed by fellow Bohemians: French artist Maurice Utrillo, the Belarusian-born Chaïm Soutine and English muse Beatrice Hastings. Whit Ayres, a Republican consultant, said it was telling that Mr. We typically associate podcasts with stories, like Serial, or conversations, like Marc Marons WTF podcast.
