Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017)

Original title

Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc

Directed by

Bruno Dumont

Genre

drama film, musical film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

APTA

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 47 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Joan of Arc experiences visions and grows into her faith in rural France. The film depicts her childhood and early religious devotion through song.

slow-burnexperimentalaustereminimalistearneststarkcontemplativeoffbeat

What happens

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. It was followed two years later by the non-musical sequel Joan of Arc, which premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, written and directed by Dumont and with Lise Leplat Prudhomme reprising her role. The script is an adaptation of the play The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc, written in 1910 by the Catholic author Charles Péguy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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