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Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc

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Directed by Bruno Dumont
Produced by Rachid Bouchareb, Jean Bréhat, and Muriel Merlin
Adaptation by Bruno Dumont Based on the play Les Mysteres de la charite de Jeanne d'Arc by Charles Peguy
With: Lise Leplat Prudhomme, Jeanne Voisin, Lucile Gauthier, Victoria Lefebvre, Aline Charles, Elise Charles, Nicolas Leclaire, Gery De Poorter, and Régine Delalin
Cinematography: Guillaume Deffontaines
Editing: Bruno Dumont and Basile Belkhiri
Music: Aline Charles, Elise Charles, Nils Cheville, Laure Le Prunenec, Anaïs Rivière, and Gautier Serre
Runtime: 105 min
Release Date: 06 September 2017
Aspect Ratio: 1.55 : 1
Color: Color
Twitter Capsule:
Bruno Dumont's intentionally amateurish, dissonant prog-metal musical set almost entirely on a small patch of beach may have lots of deep themes and ideas it wants to express, but neither director not cast transcend their home-video aesthetic long enough to make us care. 
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