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
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
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- www.flickfilosopher.com
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