The Dryden will screen Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc (Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc, Bruno Dumont, France 2017, 106 min., DCP, French w/subtitles).

France, 1425. In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young Jeannette, at the still tender age of 8, looks after her sheep in the small village of Domremy. One day, she tells her friend Hauviette how she cannot bear to see the suffering caused by the English. Madame Gervaise, a nun, tries to reason with the young girl, but Jeannette is ready to take up arms for the salvation of souls and the liberation of the Kingdom of France. Carried by her faith, she will become Joan of Arc. With heavy metal musical "Jeannette" Bruno Dumont (we recently screened his Li'l Quinquin and Slack Bay) continues the process of reinventing himself as one of the most original, iconoclastic, and consistently surprising of all French filmmakers.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2018-Apr-2]