Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc

Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
Film poster
Directed by Bruno Dumont
Written by Bruno Dumont
Release date
  • 21 May 2017 (2017-05-21) (Cannes)
  • 6 September 2017 (2017-09-06) (France)
Running time
 115 minutes
Country France
Language French

Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (French: Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc) is a 2017 French musical film directed by Bruno Dumont. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.[1][2]

Plot

Set in France during the Hundred Years' War, the film portrays Joan of Arc's religious awakening and her decision to fight against the English invasion.

Cast

  • Lise Leplat Prudhomme as Jeannette
    • Jeanne Voisin as Jeannette (older)
  • Lucile Gauthier as Hauviette (8 year)
    • Victoria Lefebvre as Hauviette (13 year)
  • Aline Charles as Madame Gervaise / Sainte Marguerite
  • Elise Charles as Madame Gervaise / Sainte Catherine
  • Nicolas Leclaire as Durand Lassois
  • Gery De Poorter as Jacques d'Arc
  • Regine Delalin as Isabeau d'Arc
  • Anaïs Rivière as Saint Michel

Reception

Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 74% based on 34 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10.[3] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 62 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[4]

In the Boston Globe, Ty Burr described the film as "very likely the first medieval heavy-metal musical ever to grace the silver screen" and "deeply and unsettlingly strange", providing "genuine oddball pleasures amid stretches of real tedium".[5] Simon Abrams of RogerEbert.com gave the film 3 1/2 stars, calling it "a challenging arthouse drama that has a slippery sense of humor and a whole lot of chutzpah."[6] Sam C. Mac of Slant Magazine said, "As an exploration of Joan of Arc in cinema narrative, the film isn't as rich and substantial as Bresson's The Trial of Joan of Arc or Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, but Dumont's more flexible sense of spiritualism makes it nonetheless compelling."[7]

Conversely, Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter said, "The acting outside the singing is often on the level of a class play, and the repetition of musical numbers and kitschy dances can grow tiresome to say the least, but you have to give Dumont credit for making something so silly seem so filled with conviction."[8] Peter Debruge of Variety called it "a blasphemous assault on French history, religion, and the musical genre."[9]

Cahiers du cinéma placed the film at number 2 on its list of the top 10 films of 2017.[10] The soundtrack, composed by French avant-garde band Igorrr, was nominated for Best Music at the 23rd Lumières Awards.[11][12][13][14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Fortnight 2017: The 49th Directors' Fortnight Selection". Directors' Fortnight. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Keslassy, Elsa (19 April 2016). "Cannes: Juliette Binoche-Gerard Depardieu Drama to Kick Off Directors Fortnight". Variety. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Jeannette l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc) (2017)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  4. ↑ "Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  5. ↑ Burr, Ty (9 May 2018). "Before she was Joan of Arc". The Boston Globe. Boston Globe Media Partners. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
  6. ↑ Abrams, Simon (13 April 2018). "Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc". RogerEbert.com. Ebert Digital LLC. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  7. ↑ Mac, Sam C. (21 May 2017). "Bruno Dumont's Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  8. ↑ Mintzer, Jordan (21 May 2017). "'Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc': Film Review | Cannes 2017". The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  9. ↑ Debruge, Peter (21 May 2017). "Cannes Film Review: 'Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc'". Variety. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  10. ↑ "Top 10 2017". Cahiers du cinéma. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  11. ↑ White, Armond (13 April 2018). "Jeannette's Joyful Noise Drowns out the Banality of A Quiet Place". National Review. Archived from the original on 30 June 2018.
  12. ↑ Williams, Blake (26 May 2017). "Cannes Dispatch #3: Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc; The Florida Project; Good Time". Filmmaker. Independent Filmmaker Project. Archived from the original on 20 August 2017.
  13. ↑ Fennessy, Kathy (17 April 2018). "Death Metal and Techno Joan of Arc in Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc". The Stranger. Index Newspapers LLC. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  14. ↑ Goodfellow, Malanie (12 December 2017). "'BPM (Beats Per Minute)' leads France's Lumière nominations". Screendaily. Media Business Insight. Archived from the original on 14 June 2018.
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