★★★★★ OUT 19 APRIL CINEMAS
If your idea of fun is watching a waxen, pompadoured Johnny Depp strut around while speaking in halting French, then this ponderous historical drama about Louis XV’s favourite mistress may be one for you. Everyone else will doubtless be as disdainful as the 18thcentury king’s (Depp) family were of the biopic’s eponymous courtesan, for all the lubricious gusto that Maïwenn (who also directs) brings to the role.