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| Contact Film | Release Date (Streaming): May 22, 2020 |
Starring:
Alain Desjacques, Annick Lavieville, Benjamin Demassieux, Benoît Robail, Jérôme Brimeux, Julien Manier, Justine Herbez, Laurent Darras, Lise Leplat Prudhomme, Serge Holvoet
Movie Facts:
- Also known as "Jeanne," the film is a quasi-sequel to Dumont's previous film, Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc, which stars the same actress as a much younger version of Joan.
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May 21, 2020
Dumont turns the tale into a dialectical spectacle: he stages military musters like Busby Berkeley productions, seethes at the torturers’ rationalizations, delights in hearing his actors declaim the scholars’ sophistries, and thrills in the pugnacious simplicity of Joan’s defiant responses, which reduce her captors’ pride to ridicule.
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May 21, 2020
IndieWire
May 20, 2020
Dumont regards history as a focal point for national identity, finding France’s leadership rooted in dry pontification and meandering religious fervor. He gives us a complex world so keen on taking itself seriously that it becomes parody, leaving only Joan’s stone-faced expression to point to a higher truth.
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May 20, 2020
Less intended, perhaps, is the fact that a viewer may find themselves identifying with one of Joan’s ecclesiastical jurors, who insists at every opportunity that his colleagues stop wasting their breath and burn her already. He’s right in the sense that the church court is just dragging its feet to a foregone conclusion. In its own way, so is the film.
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May 18, 2019
The Guardian
May 18, 2019
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