When Jeannette world premiered in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight in 2017, Bruno Dumont’s acolytes were left grappling with a taxonomical head-scratcher. Lo and behold, a director whose filmography had by and large consisted of austere and somber ruminations on life, death, and the divine, homing in on a historical figure that promised more of the same, and heralded a rebranding of sorts. For a martyr who’d been sanctified on the silver screen as far back as Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc, Jeannette looked like nothing that came before it. A musical rendition of the Maid of Orleans’ childhood and early teenage years, it framed the heroine’s spiritual awakening through the least likely rubric imaginable: heavy metal music. It was reckless, bonkers, and delightfully original.
Where Jeannette had effectively represented a stylistic and tonal departure from old Dumont, Joan of Arc is a detour to familiar,...
Where Jeannette had effectively represented a stylistic and tonal departure from old Dumont, Joan of Arc is a detour to familiar,...
- 6/10/2019
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
Early in the afternoon, half way through the Cannes Film Festival, Bruno Dumont sits inside the buzzing Terrasse du Festival. It’s day six on the Croisette, the festival has just passed its halfway mark, and the French maverick auteur just celebrated the world premiere of Jeanne (Joan of Arc). A sequel to his Jeannette, a musical period-piece on the childhood of Joan of Arc which premiered in the 2017 Directors’ Fortnight, Jeanne screened in the festival’s Un Certain Regard section. It homes in on the last three years in the short-lived life of the 15th century martyr, who helped kick the English out of France, reinstated the rule of King Charles VII, and was burned at the stake by Church elders who accused her of heresy. Scored by French electro-musician Igorrr and choreographed by Philippe Decouflé, Jeannette evoked the Maid of Orleans’ spiritual awakening through a combination of heavy...
- 5/29/2019
- MUBI
The Notebook is covering Cannes with an on-going correspondence between critic Leonardo Goi and editor Daniel Kasman.JeanneDear Danny,The day I first met Bruno Dumont, a blistering hot August afternoon in a hotel perched atop the hills of Locarno, was also the day before production for his latest film, Jeanne (Joan of Arc), was due to kick off. A sequel to his 2017 Jeannette, a musical period-piece on the childhood of Joan of Arc which had world premiered in Cannes and had continued its festival tour with a bow in the Swiss Alps, Jeanne had big shoes to fill. Scored by French electro-musician Igorrr and choreographed by Philippe Decouflé, Jeannette dwelled into the formative years of the 15th century French martyr through the most unlikely—and original—rubric imaginable: heavy metal music. For a heroine incessantly dissected and celebrated by decades of cinema history (from Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc...
- 5/21/2019
- MUBI
Exclusive: Director working with electro-pop composer Igorrr and choreographer Philippe Decouflé. Musical “Jeannette” from “Slack Bay” director will shoot in August.
French director Bruno Dumont has revealed first details about his musical film Jeannette exploring French heroine Joan of Arc’s spiritual and patriotic awakening as a child, which is due to shoot in northern France this August.
The new film work is based on The Mystery of the Charity of Jeanne d’Arc, a poem by 20th-century poet and essayist Charles Péguy capturing Joan of Arc’s humble upbringing and the visions that sparked her decision to join the struggle against the English in the latter stages of the Hundred Years’ War.
Speaking at a private presentation to buyers at the Carlton, organised by Paris-based sales company Luxbox, Dumont said the project had been born out of a desire to make a musical film rather than explore the life of Joan of Arc.
“I was like...
French director Bruno Dumont has revealed first details about his musical film Jeannette exploring French heroine Joan of Arc’s spiritual and patriotic awakening as a child, which is due to shoot in northern France this August.
The new film work is based on The Mystery of the Charity of Jeanne d’Arc, a poem by 20th-century poet and essayist Charles Péguy capturing Joan of Arc’s humble upbringing and the visions that sparked her decision to join the struggle against the English in the latter stages of the Hundred Years’ War.
Speaking at a private presentation to buyers at the Carlton, organised by Paris-based sales company Luxbox, Dumont said the project had been born out of a desire to make a musical film rather than explore the life of Joan of Arc.
“I was like...
- 5/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Director working with electro-pop composer Igorrr and choreographer Philippe Decouflé. Musical “Jeannette” from “Slack Bay” director will shoot in August.
French director Bruno Dumont has revealed first details about his musical film Jeannette exploring French heroine Joan of Arc’s spiritual and patriotic awakening as a child, which is due to shoot in northern France this August.
The new film work is based on The Mystery of the Charity of Jeanne d’Arc, a poem by 20th-century poet and essayist Charles Péguy capturing Joan of Arc’s humble upbringing and the visions that sparked her decision to join the struggle against the English in the latter stages of the Hundred Years’ War.
Speaking at a private presentation to buyers at the Carlton, organised by Paris-based sales company Luxbox, Dumont said the project had been born out of a desire to make a musical film rather than explore the life of Joan of Arc.
“I was like...
French director Bruno Dumont has revealed first details about his musical film Jeannette exploring French heroine Joan of Arc’s spiritual and patriotic awakening as a child, which is due to shoot in northern France this August.
The new film work is based on The Mystery of the Charity of Jeanne d’Arc, a poem by 20th-century poet and essayist Charles Péguy capturing Joan of Arc’s humble upbringing and the visions that sparked her decision to join the struggle against the English in the latter stages of the Hundred Years’ War.
Speaking at a private presentation to buyers at the Carlton, organised by Paris-based sales company Luxbox, Dumont said the project had been born out of a desire to make a musical film rather than explore the life of Joan of Arc.
“I was like...
- 5/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
The Trip to Italy was, by most estimates, no inferior companion to 2011’s generally beloved The Trip, and so it would only make sense that Michael Winterbottom, Steve Coogan, and Rob Brydon have a third feature — with a third series of locations — in the works. Next on their plate, according to NME, is a “venture from the North Atlantic to the Mediterranean coast,” the latest set of antics taking place within “Cantabria, the Basque region, Aragon, Rioja, Castile-La Mancha and Andalusia.”
As was the case with the first two installments, this will also be shot, edited, and presented as a television series for BBC2; it’s uncertain whether this will be before (as in the original outing) or after (as in the second) the feature premieres. Shooting begins sometime this year, perhaps after Coogan completes production on An Ideal Home, which Variety tells us he’s leading alongside Paul Rudd.
As was the case with the first two installments, this will also be shot, edited, and presented as a television series for BBC2; it’s uncertain whether this will be before (as in the original outing) or after (as in the second) the feature premieres. Shooting begins sometime this year, perhaps after Coogan completes production on An Ideal Home, which Variety tells us he’s leading alongside Paul Rudd.
- 2/16/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Chicago – A simple glance at the premise of “Crazy Horse” may cause skeptical viewers to dismiss the film as a two-hour peep show. What could possibly be gleaned from endless footage of near-nude Parisian burlesque performers apart from diverting titillation? Yet under the lens of legendary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, the footage becomes something else entirely.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Though Wiseman (of “Titicut Follies” fame) detests the term “cinéma vérité,” he is inarguably one of the grand masters of the fly-on-the-wall documentary. His signature style forbids any use of narration, staged sequences or contrived talking heads. The one reason human subjects are interviewed in a Wiseman film is because someone else decided to interview them. Favoring intuition and observation over rigorous research, the director peers through his lens with his eyes wide open.
Read Matt Fagerholm’s full review of “Crazy Horse” in our reviews section.
There are moments when Wiseman appears as...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Though Wiseman (of “Titicut Follies” fame) detests the term “cinéma vérité,” he is inarguably one of the grand masters of the fly-on-the-wall documentary. His signature style forbids any use of narration, staged sequences or contrived talking heads. The one reason human subjects are interviewed in a Wiseman film is because someone else decided to interview them. Favoring intuition and observation over rigorous research, the director peers through his lens with his eyes wide open.
Read Matt Fagerholm’s full review of “Crazy Horse” in our reviews section.
There are moments when Wiseman appears as...
- 2/23/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Frederick Wiseman doesn’t pretend to be an expert on the locations that he explores in his documentaries. It’s his meticulous attention to detail during production that makes the audience feel as if they are truly immersed in the environment of Wiseman’s films. Only during the editing process does the director find the meaning within the images.
Wiseman’s approach to nonfiction cinema is utterly organic and often very revealing. His formidable filmography, comprised of 37 documentaries and two fiction works, began with 1967’s “Titticut Follies,” which took a brutally frank and vital look at the abuse inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater. The director’s repeated study of disturbing subject matter led some of his peers, such as Errol Morris, to deem his work “misanthropic,” but Wiseman insists that’s not the case. His latest film, “Crazy Horse,” pays exuberant tribute to the dancers of the titular...
Wiseman’s approach to nonfiction cinema is utterly organic and often very revealing. His formidable filmography, comprised of 37 documentaries and two fiction works, began with 1967’s “Titticut Follies,” which took a brutally frank and vital look at the abuse inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater. The director’s repeated study of disturbing subject matter led some of his peers, such as Errol Morris, to deem his work “misanthropic,” but Wiseman insists that’s not the case. His latest film, “Crazy Horse,” pays exuberant tribute to the dancers of the titular...
- 2/21/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Part performance film, part backstage documentary, Crazy Horse is familiar in form, yet remarkable both for its subject and for who’s sitting in the director’s chair. The Crazy Horse cabaret in Paris has been staging sexy burlesque routines since 1951, with special emphasis on grand spectacle and erotic artistry ever since managing director Andrée Deissenberg and choreographer Philippe Decouflé took over in the ’00s. Unlike most documentaries about the grueling act of theatrical creation, Crazy Horse is nudity-riffic, featuring scene after scene of half-clad dancers rehearsing. And behind the camera for all this? None other than Frederick ...
- 1/19/2012
- avclub.com
"Frederick Wiseman is the deep-cover anthropologist of American cinema," begins the Guardian's Xan Brooks. "Over a 50-year career his documentaries have hidden out in the wings, playing quiet witness to the workings of various social institutions and inviting the viewers to draw their own conclusions. Wiseman has visited schools and hospitals, the Ballet de l'Opera National and the Idaho state legislature. But the spry, reflective Crazy Horse catches him on more ostensibly exotic ground, backstage at a Paris cabaret, purveyor of reputedly 'the best chic nude show in the world.' Very gently, Wiseman disrobes the spectacle and peers inside."
The "catalyst" for the new film, notes Variety's Jay Weissberg, is "Crazy Horse's new show, directed and choreographed by Philippe Decouflé. Wiseman shows old numbers alongside the new, and the difference is striking: An old-fashioned staging like 'Baby Buns,' where pink polka-dots are projected onto the dancers' naked flesh,...
The "catalyst" for the new film, notes Variety's Jay Weissberg, is "Crazy Horse's new show, directed and choreographed by Philippe Decouflé. Wiseman shows old numbers alongside the new, and the difference is striking: An old-fashioned staging like 'Baby Buns,' where pink polka-dots are projected onto the dancers' naked flesh,...
- 9/1/2011
- MUBI
Frederick Wiseman will cross the 82-year-old mark next year and the man is still churning out documentaries. After delivering two the best in the genre with his debut Titticut Follies and the follow-up High School, he continues with career that has produced over forty films. His latest, Boxing Gym, premiered at Cannes, Toronto and New York Film Festivals last year, and he already has another one.
Crazy Horse will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in a few weeks, as well as Venice, Nyff and London, and we have the first Nsfw trailer. The documentary marks Wiseman’s first foray into shooting digitally after a life of 16mm. It takes a look at Le Crazy Horse de Paris, “a landmark that has prided itself as the best nude dancing show in the world since 1951.” It appears as though the dedicated choreographer Philippe Decouflé will be the main focus as...
Crazy Horse will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in a few weeks, as well as Venice, Nyff and London, and we have the first Nsfw trailer. The documentary marks Wiseman’s first foray into shooting digitally after a life of 16mm. It takes a look at Le Crazy Horse de Paris, “a landmark that has prided itself as the best nude dancing show in the world since 1951.” It appears as though the dedicated choreographer Philippe Decouflé will be the main focus as...
- 8/23/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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