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Jeannette, The Childhood of Joan of Arc

Jeannette, The Childhood of Joan of Arc

A film by Bruno Dumont

France, 1425. In the midst of the Hundred Years’ War, the young Jeannette, at the still tender age of 8, looks after her sheep in the small village of Domremy.

One day, she tells her friend Hauviette how she cannot bear to see the suffering caused by the English. Madame Gervaise, a nun, tries to reason with the young girl, but Jeannette is ready to take up arms for the salvation of souls and the liberation of the Kingdom of France. Carried by her faith, she will become Joan of Arc.

Year: 2017

Country: France

Runtime: 115 min

Color: Color

Language: French

Subtitles: English

About the Director

Bruno Dumont (born in France) is a French film Director. To date, he has directed several feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His first feature film La vie de Jésus was selected at Directors’ Fortnight. His films have won several awards at the Cannes films Festival.  Two of Dumont’s films have won the Grand Prix award: both L’Humanité and Flandres (2006).  The only other director who has twice won the Cannes Grand Prix is Andrei Tarkovsky. Dumont’s Hadewijch won the 2009 Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) for Special Presentation at the Toronto Film Festival, and will be distributed in France in 2009, and by IFC in the U.S. in 2010. In 2016, Slack Bay was presented in Competition at the Cannes International Film Festival.

 

FILMOGRAPHY

1997  The Life of Jesus

1999  Humanity

2003  Twentynine Palms

2006  Flandres

2009  Hadewijch

2011  Hors Satan/Outside Satan

2013  Camille Claudel 1915

2016  Slack Bay

Cast and Crew

CREW

Producers: Jean Bréhat, Rachid Bouchareb, Muriel Merlin

Director: Bruno Dumont

Screenplay: Bruno Dumont

Director of Photography: Guillaume Deffontaines

Editing: Bruno Dumont, Basile Belkhiri

Music Composer: IGORRR

Choreographer: Philippe Decouflé

 

CAST

Lise Leplat Prudhomme

Jeanne Voisin

Lucile Gauthier

Victoria Lefebvre

Aline Charles

Home Media

Blu-ray

Digital

Awards and Festivals

Cannes International Film Festival, Director’s Fortnight

Transylvania International Film Festival

Moscow International Film Festival

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

New Horizons Film Festival, Poland

Toronto International Film Festival

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema

SXSW Film Festival

"Eccentric, entrancing... as bold as it is lively and sweet... an enchanting fairy tale."

- Artforum

"Weird, wild... achieves an audacity that even the most traditional cinephiles should find hard to ignore."

- Village Voice

"Dumont shows us the incongruity between girlish impetuousness -- a petulant if precocious devotion to her cause -- and the genuine rage at her nation's destruction which will serve as her hallmark."

- Letterboxd

" ‘Jeannette,’ is a visionary embodiment of continuity —a fusion of spiritual exaltation, physical fury, defiance of authority, and political revolt.”

- Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Play Dates
Theater/FestivalCityStateDate
Portland International Film FestivalPortlandOR2/15 - 3/1/18
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema (FSLC)New YorkNY3/9 /2018
EU Festival - Gene Siskel Chicago IL3/11/18
SXSW Film FestivalAustinTX3/9 - 3/18/18
George Eastman MuseumRochesterNY4/6/18
Minneapolis St Paul International Film FestivalMinneapolisMN4/12 -4/ 28/18
Quad CinemaNew YorkNY 4/13 - 4/19/18

University of Notre DameNotre DameIN4/13- 4/14/18
North West Film ForumSeattleWA4/18,4/19/18
The CinemathequeVancouverCanada4/27 - 5/2/18
Laemmle Theater (Music Hall)Beverly HillsCA5/4 - 5/10/18
Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts CenterNew OrleansLA5/4 - 5/10/18
Hippodrome TheatreGainesvilleFL5/4/18
Brattle TheatreCambridgeMA5/11 - 5/14/18
The Avalon Theatre Washington DC5/16/18
Parkway TheatreBaltimoreMD5/18 - 5/24/18
Miami Beach CinemathequeMiami BeachFL5/18 - 5/24/18
Dairy Arts CenterBoulderCO5/23-26/18
Ragtag CinemaColumbiaMO6/10/18
Oklahoma City Museum of ArtOklahoma CityOK6/13/18
The Guild CinemaAlbuquerqueNM6/15 -6/18/18
Cleveland CinemathequeClevelandOH6/23-6/24/18
Belcourt TheatreNashvilleTN6/28 - 7/1/18
Alamo Drafthouse - RitzAustinTX6/30 - 7/1/18
Jean Cocteau CinemaSanta FeNM7/6 -7/12/18
Alamo Drafthouse - WinchesterWinchesterVA7/22/18
Wexner Center for The ArtsColumbusOH7/27, 7/28/18
The Ryder Film SeriesBloomingtonIN7/6/18
Alamo MONTECILLO El PasoTX8/1/18
Roxie TheaterSan FranciscoCA8/10 - 8/14/18
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