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.

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

"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.

Dumont's early work suggested a director who wanted to be the heir to Robert Bresson and the aforementioned Dreyer, titans of formal discipline and transcendent doubt. Now he wants to be Andy Kaufman.

Overflowing with ludic energy and loaded with stimuli for debate. [Full Review in Spanish]

Jeannette succeeds in its earnestness, adapting its words from Charles Peguy's works, but countering it with the pure, joyous silliness of its presentation.

Dumont films Joan's spiritual conflicts and confrontations with playful exuberance but avoids frivolity; the ardent actors infuse Joan's spirit of revolt with the eternal passions of youth.

A film that leaves the physical world and elevates itself into something spiritual. [Full Review in Spanish]

The voices of Joan of Arc finally have a karaoke version... [Full review in Spanish]

For all the criticism Dumont has endured for abandoning realism and forsaking characters for caricature, he's responsible for some of the most exhilaratingly alive cinema in the world right now.

Some will say that [director Bruno] Dumont has completely lost his mind, but perhaps he has found enough sanity to understand that artistic freedom involves a radical challenge to the convention... [Full review in Spanish]

Jeannette isn't going to be seen as Dumont's pièce de résistance. If anything, it will be seen as another successful harnessing of his unusual creative impulses. Not a bad thing.

This singular musical gloriously combines gorgeous beachside settings, idiosyncratic non-actors, beautifully low-key singing, and heavy metal for one of the most joyous experiences the festival has to offer.

A charming, if insistently odd musical representation of Joan of Arc's early years...

Before Dumont could even be safely recategorized again, Jeannette goes far beyond the label of goofy lark.