Johnny Depp and his castmates received a seven-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival during the screening of the French-language film “Jeanne du Barry.” Videos on social media show Depp becoming teary-eyed during the praise. 

Depp made global headlines last year during his legal battle against his ex-wife Amber Heard, who he sued last year, saying an op-ed she wrote about being a victim of abuse was defamation, though the column did not name him. The weekslong trial was highly publicized and each party testified in graphic detail about alleged abuse they suffered. In the end, the jury awarded Depp $10.35 million and Heard $2 million. 

During a panel for the film in Cannes, Depp said he is aware of the controversy that follows him. “We’re here to talk about a film, but it’s like asking a question, ‘How are you doing?’ But what’s underneath in the subtext is ‘God I hate you,'” he said. 

“The majority of what you’ve been reading for the last five or six years in regards to me and my life, the majority of what you read is fantastically, horrifically written fiction,” he said. 

During the legal battle against Heard, who counter-sued Depp, the actor said he lost acting jobs and money because of the op-ed she wrote. He said Disney dropped him from the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, in which he starred as Jack Sparrow. Heard’s lawyer argued that happened before the op-ed was published. 

At the panel for “Jeanne du Barry,” which Depp’s production company IN.2 Film helped produce, Depp said he doesn’t feel boycotted by Hollywood – because he doesn’t think about Hollywood. 

“It’s a strange, funny time where everybody would love to be able to be themselves, but they can’t. They must fall in line with the person in front of them. If you want to live that life, I wish you the best,” he said, adding he’s not done with acting. 

The star’s appearance at Cannes received mixed reactions. While he received the lengthy standing ovation and fans cheered for him on the red carpet, others opposed the praise. 

Some people used the hashtag #CannesYouNot to show displeasure with his presence because of the controversial legal battle against Heard, who some felt was wronged. 

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Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” won the Palme d’Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in a ceremony Saturday that handed the festival’s prestigious top prize to a twisty French Alps courtroom drama. 

“Anatomy of a Fall” is only the third film directed by a woman to win the Palme d’Or. It stars Sandra Hüller as a writer trying to prove her innocence in her husband’s death. Cannes’ Grand Prix, its second prize, went to Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” a chilling Martin Amis adaptation about a German family living next door to Auschwitz.

Turkish actress Merve Dizdar and Japan’s Koji Yakusho won the best actress and actor awards on Saturday at the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Tran Anh Hung won best director for “The Pot-au-Feu.”

Turkey’s Merve Dizdar won best actress for “About Dry Grasses”, the latest from festival favorite Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

She said she played “someone who is fighting for her life and she has overcome a lot of difficulties.”

“Under normal circumstances, I would have to work hard on this character in order to understand her but I live in a part of the country which enabled me to fully understand who she is,” she said.

“I understand what it is, being a woman in that area.”

The film focuses on a dejected schoolteacher frustrated with his life in a remote Anatolian village.

Shot in Ceylan’s visually arresting style, it looks at teacher-pupil relations and the roots of political engagement.

Ceylan previously won the Palme d’Or for “Winter Sleep”, among multiple awards he has received over the years at the Cannes Film Festival.

Japan’s Koji Yakusho won best actor at Cannes for “Perfect Days” by German director Wim Wenders, a touching tale about a Tokyo toilet cleaner.

“I want to specifically thank Wim Wenders… who truly created a magnificent character,” he said as he received the award.

The festival, which closed on Saturday evening, sometimes felt like a dream retirement home populated by aging male icons.

There was a glitzy out-of-competition premiere for the new Indiana Jones movie, with an 80-year-old Harrison Ford getting weepy when he received an honorary Palme d’Or.

Martin Scorsese, also 80, premiered his much-anticipated Native American epic “Killers of the Flower Moon” with Robert De Niro, 79.

European auteurs Marco Bellocchio, 83, Wim Wenders, 77, and Victor Erice, 82, all brought new films.

The oldest of all, 86-year-old Ken Loach, showed he still had fighting spirit with the final entry in the competition on Friday, “The Old Oak”, a moving homage to working-class solidarity.

Loach has had no fewer than 15 films in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

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