A full-bore arthouse feature - and depending on the viewer that means full-bore in more ways than one.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 27, 2021

Jeannette gets a lot better in second viewing. You just have to work a little harder to dig through its genre trappings to see its austere beauty: the beauty in a young girl's unwavering, sacred devotion to god in free form.

| Jul 17, 2020

The results are one of a kind and certainly not for everyone, but if you can get on its wavelength, you'll find much to appreciate.

| Apr 17, 2020

It's fun, absurd, and a bit burlesque -- ecstasy minus the agony of typical martyr narratives.

| Feb 12, 2020

Those willing to give Jeannette a chance have no choice but to abandon their preconceived notions, and anyone who does will find themselves encountering one of the most entertaining experiences of the year.

| Jun 5, 2019

t's a little more interesting in concept than in practice, though I cannot deny the true pleasure of watching stoic nuns doing a full choreographed dance in their habits.

| Apr 20, 2019

Along with Johnnie To's Office (2015) and Sion Sono's Tokyo Tribe (2014), Dumont has made one of the most unusual, singular, and best musicals in recent years.

| Nov 18, 2018

Bruno Dumont's Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc [is] instantly stimulating: The story of France's patron saint who was martyred during the Hundred Years' War is told through the joyful noise of a heavy-metal musical.

| Nov 1, 2018

An ambitious, even overwhelming mash-up of cinematic tactics morphed into one delectable, original bauble.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2018

The biggest problem with "Jeannette," beyond what some may consider the blasphemous elements, is that Dumont limits his story to the less compelling parts of Joan's life - before she took on the British occupiers.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 9, 2018

What Jeanette captures more than any other film I can think of is the strangeness of Christian faith even to its adherents.

| Aug 7, 2018

Seeing is believing. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 2, 2018

The French filmmaker focuses... on the religious call that awakens the vocation of this young peasant who decided to take up arms. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 28, 2018

Starring two young actresses with no history in film, the film is a musical stripped of all American stylistic rigor and has no problem laughing at itself. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 26, 2018

"Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc" is very likely the first medieval heavy-metal musical ever to grace the silver screen. Sadly, it's not quite as fun as that sounds.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 10, 2018

They soon resort to head-banging antics as well. There are some eye-popping images, to be sure, but too bad Dumont didn't go to Bingen for the music.

| Apr 26, 2018

Unfortunately, his G-rated Bresson-as-poptimist approach is surprisingly dull, and the two Jeannes aren't exactly the best singers.

| Apr 19, 2018

A dialogue, and a mutual cross-examination, not only among the main characters ... and above all between man and God, but also between Péguy and Dumont, and even between Péguy the Socialist unbeliever of 1897 and Péguy the believing Catholic of 1910.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 13, 2018

A challenging arthouse drama that has a slippery sense of humor and a whole lot of chutzpah.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 13, 2018

"Jeannette" throws the modern back at the medieval, making no distinction between religious ecstasy and that experienced in certain contemporary contexts of music and ritual.

| Apr 12, 2018