French director Bruno Dumont’s latest, a ponderous experimental musical about Joan of Arc’s childhood, celebrates the innocence and banality of a young saint’s life.
Eileen G’Sell
Eileen G’Sell is a poet and critic with recent contributions to Jacobin, Poetry, The Baffler, and The Hopkins Review. Her second volume of poetry, Francofilaments, was recently published by Broken Sleep Books. In 2023, she received the Rabkin Prize for arts journalism. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
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