Bruno Dumont's 'Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc' riffs on future saint as proto-punk

French art-movie needler Bruno Dumont makes films that might be described as staring contests with the viewer: Who will blink first, the moviegoer confronted with the penetrating, often religiously tinged eccentricities on display? Or Dumont, if only because his sleepy, long takes with typically...

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