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All of this is, as you might imagine, defiantly obtuse, the movie's disaffectedly delivered dialogue — which was culled from a pair of Peguy texts about the martyred heroine's youth — squeezed obstinately between Dumont's statically composed community theater aesthetics and a churningly melodic fuzz-and-thrash score by Gallic death-metal outfit Igorrr.

Now, with "Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc," in which the legendary teenage saint gets the rock-opera treatment by way of French poet Charles Peguy, Dumont is flirting with whether there's something compellingly alchemic in wrapping the kind of spiritual allegories that once dominated his movies, in a package of occasionally unabashed loopiness.

Historical drama written and directed by Bruno Dumont, based on novels by Charles ��é���ܲ�.