''Joan of Arc'' () is a 2019 French

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directed by Bruno Dumont and starring Lise Leplat Prudhomme. It is the sequel to '' Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc'' (2017). It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot

After her triumph against the English army,

Joan of Arc Joan of Arc ( ; ; – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the Coronation of the French monarch, coronation of Charles VII o ...

is captured by the Burgundians. She is put on trial for heresy.

Cast

* Lise Leplat Prudhomme as Jeanne * Jean-François Causeret as Monseigneur Pierre Cauchon * Daniel Dienne as Maître Thomas de Courcelles * Fabien Fenet as Maître Nicolas L'Oiseleur * Robert Hanicotte as Messire Jean d'Estivet * Yves Habert as Maître William Haiton * Fabrice Luchini as

Charles VII of France Charles VII (22 February 1403 – 22 July 1461), called the Victorious () or the Well-Served (), was King of France from 1422 to his death in 1461. His reign saw the end of the Hundred Years' War and a ''de facto'' end of the English claims to ...

* Christophe as Maître Guillaume Evrard

Release

The film had its premiere in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2019. It was released in France on 11 September 2019.

Reception

Critical reception

On review aggregator website

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, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critics consensus reads: "''Joan of Arc'' (''Jeanne'') definitely offers a different take on this oft-told tale, although it isn't always able to deliver absorbing drama." On

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, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 50 out of 100, based on eleven critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Peter Bradshaw of ''

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'' gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, writing, "I found this film ultimately exasperating: not quite funny enough to be funny, or serious enough to be serious, or passionate enough to be about the passion of Joan of Arc." Sam C. Mac of ''

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'' praised Lise Leplat Prudhomme's performance, commenting that she "gives an extraordinarily committed, and convincing, performance as the teenaged Joan." Guy Lodge of '' Variety'' wrote, "Imposing by any generational measure, Prudhomme's fervid, unflinching performance puts some blood and guts into an otherwise stony, hyper-measured exercise."

Accolades

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Joan Of Arc 2019 films 2019 drama films 2019 biographical drama films 2010s French-language films French biographical drama films French sequel films Films directed by Bruno Dumont Films about Joan of Arc 2010s French films Louis Delluc Prize winners Les Films du Losange films French-language biographical drama films