Lise Leplat Prudhomme as Joan of Arc. Bruno Dumont: 'It may seem anachronistic to choose a young girl but it makes the audience confront their own preconceptions and to go deeper' Photo: Unifrance As a director and as a person Bruno Dumont - whose film Joan Of Arc reaches UK streaming services this week - has lightened up considerably since the austere days of Humanity and Flanders, which both scooped the Cannes Film Festival’s grand prix awards in 1999 and 2006 respectively. Although he has been invited more than eight times to take part in the Festival’s various sections frequently he receives a rough ride from the critics and the public while his admirers will defend him to the hilt.
He directed his first feature film at the age of 38: The Life Of Jesus (1996), which was shot in his home town of Bailleul, near Lille. It was much acclaimed in the Director's Fortnight,...
He directed his first feature film at the age of 38: The Life Of Jesus (1996), which was shot in his home town of Bailleul, near Lille. It was much acclaimed in the Director's Fortnight,...
- 6/16/2020
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The maverick filmmaker Bruno Dumont clearly is rather obsessed with Joan of Arc - and he is not alone. Many of the French regard her as a symbol of the soul of France.
After directing a musical period-piece, Jeanette, reflecting on her childhood - which premiered in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2017 - he could not resist coming back to the fray with a second film which homes in on the last three of years of her martyred and short lived life.
Based on he writings of Charles Péguy, the Maid of Orléans, as she was known, kicked out the English from France, reinstated the rule of King Charles VII and was burned at the stake by Church elders who accused of her heresy.
Dumont sets about dissecting all the myths surrounding her with a forensic rigour, using the same young actor Lise Leplat Prudhomme who was eight at the...
After directing a musical period-piece, Jeanette, reflecting on her childhood - which premiered in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2017 - he could not resist coming back to the fray with a second film which homes in on the last three of years of her martyred and short lived life.
Based on he writings of Charles Péguy, the Maid of Orléans, as she was known, kicked out the English from France, reinstated the rule of King Charles VII and was burned at the stake by Church elders who accused of her heresy.
Dumont sets about dissecting all the myths surrounding her with a forensic rigour, using the same young actor Lise Leplat Prudhomme who was eight at the...
- 5/19/2020
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile) featuring Mina Farid, Zahia Dehar, Benoît Magimel, Nuno Lopes, Clotilde Courau and Lakdhar Dridi, is a Rendez-Vous with French Cinema highlight Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Early Bird highlights in the UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center 25th edition include Nicolas Pariser’s Alice And The Mayor (Alice Et Le maire), starring Anaïs Demoustier and Fabrice Luchini with Antoine Reinartz and Nora Hamzawi; Alice Winocour’s Proxima with Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon, Sandra Hüller, and Lars Eidinger, score by Ryuichi Sakamoto; Bruno Dumont's Joan Of Arc (Jeanne), his sequel to Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan of Arc, starring Lise Leplat Prudhomme, and Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile).
Opening the festival is Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth (La Vérité), starring Catherine Deneuve (also in Cédric Kahn’s Happy Birthday - Fête De Famille), Juliette.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Early Bird highlights in the UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center 25th edition include Nicolas Pariser’s Alice And The Mayor (Alice Et Le maire), starring Anaïs Demoustier and Fabrice Luchini with Antoine Reinartz and Nora Hamzawi; Alice Winocour’s Proxima with Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon, Sandra Hüller, and Lars Eidinger, score by Ryuichi Sakamoto; Bruno Dumont's Joan Of Arc (Jeanne), his sequel to Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan of Arc, starring Lise Leplat Prudhomme, and Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile).
Opening the festival is Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth (La Vérité), starring Catherine Deneuve (also in Cédric Kahn’s Happy Birthday - Fête De Famille), Juliette.
- 2/24/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Bruno Dumont’s “Joan of Arc (“Jeanne”), a semi-musical period drama that world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won a special mention in the Un Certain Regard section, has received the Louis Delluc prize from French Critics.
The jury of the Louis Delluc prize is headed by Gilles Jacob, the former president of the Cannes Film Festival.
Dumont’s film follows the journey of the young Joan (Lise Leplat Prudhomme), who believes that God has chosen her and leads the king of France’s army in the 15th century as both France and England fight for the French throne. When she is captured, the church sends her for trial on charges of heresy.
“Joan of Arc,” which is a follow-up to Dumont’s 2017 film “Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc,” beat out Alain Cavalier’s “Living and Knowing You’re Alive,” Francois Ozon’s “By the Grace of God,...
The jury of the Louis Delluc prize is headed by Gilles Jacob, the former president of the Cannes Film Festival.
Dumont’s film follows the journey of the young Joan (Lise Leplat Prudhomme), who believes that God has chosen her and leads the king of France’s army in the 15th century as both France and England fight for the French throne. When she is captured, the church sends her for trial on charges of heresy.
“Joan of Arc,” which is a follow-up to Dumont’s 2017 film “Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc,” beat out Alain Cavalier’s “Living and Knowing You’re Alive,” Francois Ozon’s “By the Grace of God,...
- 12/9/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The feature by Bruno Dumont has been crowned Best French Film of the Year, while Stéphane Batut’s Burning Ghost has come out on top in the Best First Film category. Handed out by a jury of critics and film-industry personalities, and presided over by Gilles Jacob, the prestigious 2019 Louis-Delluc Award for Best French Film of the Year has gone to Joan of Arc by Bruno Dumont. The winner of a Special Mention from the Un Certain Regard jury at the Cannes Film Festival, this feature, starring Lise Leplat Prudhomme in the main role and inspired by Charles Péguy’s stage play The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc, is the sequel to Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc (premiered in 2017), but adopts quite a different tone. It is the ninth feature-length fiction film by the director, who is due to wrap the shoot for his new.
“Jeanne” (“Joan of Arc”), Bruno Dumont’s musical sequel to “Jeanette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc,” has been sold to multiple major territories by Paris-based Luxbox.
Written by Dumont and based on the writings of France’s Charles Péguy, “Joan of Arc” adapts the second and third parts of the stage play “The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc.” These take Joan of Arc’s story through her victorious battles against the English, to court case and death, burnt at the stake.
In the 15th century, France and England both claimed the French throne as their own. Believing herself ordained by God, young Joan takes charge of the armies of the King of France. Eventually Joan is captured and the Church puts her on trial, charged with heresy, a crime punishable by death.
The companies and territories in which Luxbox has closed deals so far are Brooklyn-based...
Written by Dumont and based on the writings of France’s Charles Péguy, “Joan of Arc” adapts the second and third parts of the stage play “The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc.” These take Joan of Arc’s story through her victorious battles against the English, to court case and death, burnt at the stake.
In the 15th century, France and England both claimed the French throne as their own. Believing herself ordained by God, young Joan takes charge of the armies of the King of France. Eventually Joan is captured and the Church puts her on trial, charged with heresy, a crime punishable by death.
The companies and territories in which Luxbox has closed deals so far are Brooklyn-based...
- 12/3/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
When Jeannette world premiered in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight in 2017, Bruno Dumont’s acolytes were left grappling with a taxonomical head-scratcher. Lo and behold, a director whose filmography had by and large consisted of austere and somber ruminations on life, death, and the divine, homing in on a historical figure that promised more of the same, and heralded a rebranding of sorts. For a martyr who’d been sanctified on the silver screen as far back as Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc, Jeannette looked like nothing that came before it. A musical rendition of the Maid of Orleans’ childhood and early teenage years, it framed the heroine’s spiritual awakening through the least likely rubric imaginable: heavy metal music. It was reckless, bonkers, and delightfully original.
Where Jeannette had effectively represented a stylistic and tonal departure from old Dumont, Joan of Arc is a detour to familiar,...
Where Jeannette had effectively represented a stylistic and tonal departure from old Dumont, Joan of Arc is a detour to familiar,...
- 6/10/2019
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
Early in the afternoon, half way through the Cannes Film Festival, Bruno Dumont sits inside the buzzing Terrasse du Festival. It’s day six on the Croisette, the festival has just passed its halfway mark, and the French maverick auteur just celebrated the world premiere of Jeanne (Joan of Arc). A sequel to his Jeannette, a musical period-piece on the childhood of Joan of Arc which premiered in the 2017 Directors’ Fortnight, Jeanne screened in the festival’s Un Certain Regard section. It homes in on the last three years in the short-lived life of the 15th century martyr, who helped kick the English out of France, reinstated the rule of King Charles VII, and was burned at the stake by Church elders who accused her of heresy. Scored by French electro-musician Igorrr and choreographed by Philippe Decouflé, Jeannette evoked the Maid of Orleans’ spiritual awakening through a combination of heavy...
- 5/29/2019
- MUBI
The Notebook is covering Cannes with an on-going correspondence between critic Leonardo Goi and editor Daniel Kasman.JeanneDear Danny,The day I first met Bruno Dumont, a blistering hot August afternoon in a hotel perched atop the hills of Locarno, was also the day before production for his latest film, Jeanne (Joan of Arc), was due to kick off. A sequel to his 2017 Jeannette, a musical period-piece on the childhood of Joan of Arc which had world premiered in Cannes and had continued its festival tour with a bow in the Swiss Alps, Jeanne had big shoes to fill. Scored by French electro-musician Igorrr and choreographed by Philippe Decouflé, Jeannette dwelled into the formative years of the 15th century French martyr through the most unlikely—and original—rubric imaginable: heavy metal music. For a heroine incessantly dissected and celebrated by decades of cinema history (from Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc...
- 5/21/2019
- MUBI
You have to hand it to Bruno Dumont, France’s dark prince of dour auteurism: He never makes the same film twice, even when he does, to all intents and purposes, make the same film twice. Two years ago, he offered his own singular contribution to cinema’s well-stocked canon of Joan of Arc dramas: As a rare take on the peasant-turned-saint’s formative years, “Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc” would have stood out even if Dumont hadn’t set it to a heavy-metal song score, perhaps to compensate for the story’s lack of steely battle armor. Memorably bizarre but mostly bludgeoning, it left few but the most dedicated Dumont diehards begging for more — but he was never going to leave the story half-told, even if a sequel would inevitably have to cover far more familiar turf.
Enter the starkly titked “Joan of Arc,” which puts away...
Enter the starkly titked “Joan of Arc,” which puts away...
- 5/19/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
"Men are impious." We're a week away from the start of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and we're beginning to see some marketing for films premiering there. The first full trailer for Bruno Dumont's new Joan of Arc film, titled simply Joan of Arc – or also Jeanne in France, has just debuted. We all know the story of Joan of Arc, and just before this Dumont made the film Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc. In this new adaptation, Dumont cast a 10-year-old actress named Lise Leplat Prudhomme to play Joan/Jeanne. This choice "re-injects this heroine's timeless cause and ideology with a modernity that highlights both the tragic female condition and the incredible fervor, strength and freedom women show when shackled by societies and archaic virile orders that belittle and alienate them." Also stars Annick Lavieville, Justine Herbez, and Benoit Robail. The film premieres in Cannes, so watch...
- 5/6/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
French director Bruno Dumont's 15th century period drama "Joan Of Arc", stars 10-year old Lise Leplat Prudhomme as the legendary young warrior who inspired the French Army into battle, only to be charged with witchcraft and heresy, followed by a gruesome burning at the stake:
"It's an epic film," said Dumont. "A gothic action film. 'Game of Thrones' draws so heavily on the Middle Ages that today any historical evocation reminds us of it. With 'Joan of Arc' all the facts and characters are authentic.
"This is the first time that the main actor has been 10 years old, when she was 39, say, in a previous production. 'Joan of Arc' in fact died at the age of 19. The freedom of interpretation is therefore infinite, just like the style, because what is at stake is timeless and accuracy is no match for that."
"I’m very fond of this...
"It's an epic film," said Dumont. "A gothic action film. 'Game of Thrones' draws so heavily on the Middle Ages that today any historical evocation reminds us of it. With 'Joan of Arc' all the facts and characters are authentic.
"This is the first time that the main actor has been 10 years old, when she was 39, say, in a previous production. 'Joan of Arc' in fact died at the age of 19. The freedom of interpretation is therefore infinite, just like the style, because what is at stake is timeless and accuracy is no match for that."
"I’m very fond of this...
- 5/6/2019
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
One of the most acclaimed directors working in France today, Bruno Dumont doesn’t tend to repeat himself. In the last decade, he has gone from making a supernatural thriller set in the countryside (“Outside Satan”) to a classical biopic (“Camille Claudel 1915”) to a whimsical TV series about bumbling detectives (“Lil Quinquin”) and a surrealist comedy of manners (“Slack Bay”).
For his Cannes-premiering “Joan of Arc,” however, Dumont is returning to recent turf. The period drama follows 2017’s “Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,” a deadpan portrait of the future martyr’s childhood that was set to heavy metal music. For “Joan of Arc,” Dumont follows his “Jeanette” star Lise Leplat Prudhomme into the famous 15th century saga as she leads the French army on a holy mission that leads to charges of heresy and, eventually, her death.
Like “Jeanette,” the new movie draws on a revisionist approach to...
For his Cannes-premiering “Joan of Arc,” however, Dumont is returning to recent turf. The period drama follows 2017’s “Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,” a deadpan portrait of the future martyr’s childhood that was set to heavy metal music. For “Joan of Arc,” Dumont follows his “Jeanette” star Lise Leplat Prudhomme into the famous 15th century saga as she leads the French army on a holy mission that leads to charges of heresy and, eventually, her death.
Like “Jeanette,” the new movie draws on a revisionist approach to...
- 5/6/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Jeanne
The idiosyncratic French auteur Bruno Dumont finds himself in full sequel swing with Jeanne, a follow-up to his lauded 2017 musical Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc (read review). Lise Leplat Prudhomme resurrects her role from the first film while Dumont moves into adapting the second and third parts of Charles Peguy’s The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc. Confirming the sequel will also be a musical, Dumont’s soundtrack will this time be scored by 1980s French pop singer Christophe rather than the mix of heavy metal which was the pronounced element of the earlier film.…...
The idiosyncratic French auteur Bruno Dumont finds himself in full sequel swing with Jeanne, a follow-up to his lauded 2017 musical Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc (read review). Lise Leplat Prudhomme resurrects her role from the first film while Dumont moves into adapting the second and third parts of Charles Peguy’s The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc. Confirming the sequel will also be a musical, Dumont’s soundtrack will this time be scored by 1980s French pop singer Christophe rather than the mix of heavy metal which was the pronounced element of the earlier film.…...
- 1/7/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Bruno Dumont attended the 71st edition of the Locarno Festival to pick up a Lifetime Achievement Award and present CoinCoin and the Extra Humans, the follow-up to his sci-fi 4-part comedy series (and arguably biggest mainstream hit), P’tit Quinquin. But the buzz around the French maverick auteur owed as much to Quinquin’s new extra-terrestrial encounters as to the news that his last feature film, the 2017 Joan of Arc-themed musical Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc, will soon have a sequel of its own. Jeanne, the second and last chapter in the life of The Maid of Orléans, started shooting today, August 6. Based as its predecessor on the play by Belle Époque writer Charles Péguy, “The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc,” Jeanne is set to follow the eponymous heroine as she triumphs over the English in the Hundred Years War, and is later put on...
- 8/6/2018
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
Bruno Dumont on working with the writings of Charles Péguy: "Poetry and literary expression can be a very difficult tricky thing." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In Jeannette, L'Enfance De Jeanne D’Arc (Jeannette, The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc), at times, little Jeannette (Lise Leplat Prudhomme) looks up straight into the camera (cinematography by Guillaume Deffontaines - Slack Bay (Ma Loute), Li'l Quinquin, Camille Claudel 1915) and addresses God. Our position, helpless, watching from the audience, curious what this defiant girl demands, turns us into an unexpected, stupefied deity.
It is the contrast that stuns, between the early 21st century girls and music (composed by Nils Cheville, Laure Le Prunenec, Gautier Serre with the three saints in the film, Aline Charles, Elise Charles, Anaïs Rivière), the turn of the 20th century text, and the 15th century subject matter that never ceases to be urgent. "More wounded, more sick, more suffering" will exist until "someone kills war.
In Jeannette, L'Enfance De Jeanne D’Arc (Jeannette, The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc), at times, little Jeannette (Lise Leplat Prudhomme) looks up straight into the camera (cinematography by Guillaume Deffontaines - Slack Bay (Ma Loute), Li'l Quinquin, Camille Claudel 1915) and addresses God. Our position, helpless, watching from the audience, curious what this defiant girl demands, turns us into an unexpected, stupefied deity.
It is the contrast that stuns, between the early 21st century girls and music (composed by Nils Cheville, Laure Le Prunenec, Gautier Serre with the three saints in the film, Aline Charles, Elise Charles, Anaïs Rivière), the turn of the 20th century text, and the 15th century subject matter that never ceases to be urgent. "More wounded, more sick, more suffering" will exist until "someone kills war.
- 4/8/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Co-composers Aline Charles and Elise Charles together as Madame Gervaise with Lise Leplat Prudhomme as Jeannette in Bruno Dumont's sublime, unique musical Jeannette, L'Enfance De Jeanne D’Arc (Jeannette, The Childhood of Joan of Arc)
In New York for uniFrance and the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, Bruno Dumont joined me for a conversation at the Loews Regency on Park Avenue to discuss divine inspiration, and how he interprets Charles Péguy's nationalism, his Catholicism, and socialism. In his latest film, Dumont puts thought into action with eager young actors who sing and dance and summersault to produce a cinematic work unlike any you have ever seen.
Bruno Dumont with Anne-Katrin Titze on making a musical out of Charles Péguy: "It's truly a very strange idea, yes." Photo: Nicholas Elliott
After Camille Claudel, 1915 starring Juliette Binoche, and his absurdly funny Li'l Quinquin and outrageous Slack Bay...
In New York for uniFrance and the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, Bruno Dumont joined me for a conversation at the Loews Regency on Park Avenue to discuss divine inspiration, and how he interprets Charles Péguy's nationalism, his Catholicism, and socialism. In his latest film, Dumont puts thought into action with eager young actors who sing and dance and summersault to produce a cinematic work unlike any you have ever seen.
Bruno Dumont with Anne-Katrin Titze on making a musical out of Charles Péguy: "It's truly a very strange idea, yes." Photo: Nicholas Elliott
After Camille Claudel, 1915 starring Juliette Binoche, and his absurdly funny Li'l Quinquin and outrageous Slack Bay...
- 3/16/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Well, it’s that time of year again. Yes, the Portland International Film Festival is set to begin for it’s 41st edition, and it’s going to be one of the festival’s best yet. Need some proof? Well, among it’s numerous feature length films and short works, there are films from names as iconic as Abbas Kiarostami and genuine discoveries like documentaries from directors Ben Russell and Filipa Cesar. And that’s just where this lineup begins. Here are ten (or more so eleven, but who’s counting) films that you need to see from this year’s bewildering Piff lineup.
10. Jeanette, The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc
When imagining the type of film that would be the result of a retelling of the early life of Joan of Arc, Bruno Dumont’s Jeanette is not the austere biography one would truly expect. Instead, telling the story...
10. Jeanette, The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc
When imagining the type of film that would be the result of a retelling of the early life of Joan of Arc, Bruno Dumont’s Jeanette is not the austere biography one would truly expect. Instead, telling the story...
- 2/16/2018
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
It’s easy to imagine the “old-school” Bruno Dumont Joan of Arc film; faith, martyrdom, and the landscape of the French countryside intermingling to a wrenching finale, with Bresson and Dreyer certainly paid their transcendental cinema due. Though perhaps realizing their films weren’t the be-all, end-all in terms of representing the French icon, even if Preminger, Rivette and uh, Besson, had also offered their own takes that showed a portrait beyond the trial and subsequent burning at the stake, he finally set about making it, but as a new artist.
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc is part of what could cynically be considered a “rebranding” for a director who was, alongside Michael Haneke, the face of austere, po-faced festival cinema for most of the first decade of the 21st century. Yet Bruno Dumont, who since 2014’s Petit Quinquin, a comedic reimagining of his most seminal work, Humanite,...
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc is part of what could cynically be considered a “rebranding” for a director who was, alongside Michael Haneke, the face of austere, po-faced festival cinema for most of the first decade of the 21st century. Yet Bruno Dumont, who since 2014’s Petit Quinquin, a comedic reimagining of his most seminal work, Humanite,...
- 9/13/2017
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
If you thought the sudden move of French director Burno Dumont from austere drama to increasingly wacky comedy in the TV miniseries P'tit Quinquin and last year’s farce Slack Bay was a shock, prepare yourself for Jeannette, an electro-musical dance film on the adolescent life of Joan of Arc. Opening with little Jeannette (Lise Leplat Prudhomme) humming prayers to herself along the river Meuse (in fact, Dumont re-locates the story to his beloved northern France), suddenly the music swells, she belts one out—”there is nothing, there is never anything, but perdition!”—and ends it all with a handspring and splits. “Why do you do that?” asks a passing child, but the answer is obvious: lonesome, poor, in love with charity and full of doubts, Jeannette bounds with childhood’s pent up energy and calls forth her questions, protests and passion in bodily, soulful fervor. With this beginning, Dumont...
- 9/13/2017
- MUBI
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