by Kathy Fennessy Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc
A head-banging Joan of Arc with a rhyme-spitting uncle and levitating saints? It can only be the work of Bruno Dumont (Cannes Grand Jury Prize winner for 1999's bleak Humanité). There's no shortage of biopics about the Orléans icon as a young adult, so the French filmmaker's idiosyncratic, if respectful origin story attempts to restore some color to her alabaster cheeks.
Instead of a tortured adolescent, Jeannette (Lise Lepl
A head-banging Joan of Arc with a rhyme-spitting uncle and levitating saints? It can only be the work of Bruno Dumont (Cannes Grand Jury Prize winner for 1999's bleak Humanité). There's no shortage of biopics about the Orléans icon as a young adult, so the French filmmaker's idiosyncratic, if respectful origin story attempts to restore some color to her alabaster cheeks.
Instead of a tortured adolescent, Jeannette (Lise Lepl