January 31, 2019
Bruno Dumont created a faithful but strikingly contemporary interpretation of the childhood of Joan of Arc, with music by death metal composer Igorr and children recorded singing live.
Bruno Dumont created a faithful but strikingly contemporary interpretation of the childhood of Joan of Arc, with music by death metal composer Igorr and children recorded singing live on the dunes of the Pas-de-Calais. The result is mystifying and mystical, jaw-dropping and farcical, but never less than inspired: a film in which an eight-year-old girl does justice to the verse of one of the great French poets while twin nuns do a gestural dance surrounded by a flock of oblivious sheep. For all its gleeful wackiness, Jeanette is a serious film about the idea of France, childhood, and religious faith, located at the unlikely intersection of realism and absolute movie fantasy.
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- Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Cost: Free