L’Enfance de Jeanne d’Arc

L’Enfance de Jeanne d’Arc

Cannes

CANNES 2017: JEANNETTE L’ENFANCE DE JEANNE D’ARC BY BRUNO DUMONT

By Mónica Delgado

Divided en three parts, Jeannette, L’Enfance de Jeanne d’Arc is an absolutely unusual musical, but at the same time it is a very “Dumontian” film. His style is clearly recognizable in the actors’ direction, in its “medieval” physiognomies, in the austerity of his mise in scene and also in the clear familiarity with the absurdist comedy he’s been working in in the last years. A free and creative work, that presents an iconoclastic and renewed Dumont.

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