This time, it’s an out-of-competition opening night film that's lighting the spark. Is the Cannes Film Festival in tune with the times when it rolls out the red carpet for Johnny Depp – megastar of the silver screen, and a polarising figure for those who followed his acquittal in the ugly bare-all trial that pitted the actor against ex-wife Amber Heard?
We ask about the festival feting Depp, who in his return plays France's King Louis XV, and how much has changed in the five years since the #MeToo reckoning.
