Joan of Arc (2019 film)

Joan of Arc (Jeanne) is a 2019 French drama film 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 is captured by the Burgundians. She is put on trial for heresy.

Cast

 * Lise Leplat Prudhomme as Jeanne
 * Jean-Francois Causeret
 * Daniel Dienne
 * Fabien Fenet
 * Robert Hanicotte
 * Yves Habert
 * Fabrice Luchini
 * Christophe

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

Reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 29% based on 7 reviews, with an average rating of 5/10. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 32 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian 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 Slant Magazine 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."