Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Jeannette l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc)
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- Lise Leplat Prudhomme
- Jeanne Voisin
- Lucile Gauthier
- Victoria Lefebvre
- Aline Charles
- Elise Charles
- Nicolas Leclaire
- Gery De Poorter
- Régine Delalin
- Anaïs Rivière
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Dumont's imagination is fertile, but not exactly full when it runs close to two hours. What's always evident, however, is a punk-rock respect for Joan as a symbol of exuberant outrageousness.
“Jeannette” throws the modern back at the medieval, making no distinction between religious ecstasy and that experienced in certain contemporary contexts of music and ritual. It’s a provocative proposition that yields a film of genuine spiritual dimension.
It's true that the disorientation produced in the collision of Igorrr's frenetic style-mashing and Dumont's unadorned long-take aesthetic ensures that the film feels remarkably distinct from prior cinematic adaptations of Joan of Arc's life, but it's also hard not to wonder how this particular story might have played without the farfetched musical conceit grafted atop it.