[REL] Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc (2017)

[Night457]

Wow, this takes me back to my own FLM early days. It is SO OLD that it is on my very first external hard drive with FLMovies, a dozen drives ago. That drive is SO OLD that I have watched all the movies on it. I am in the process of uploading ghost's extended edition to MEGA but my Internet seems to have post-Christmas lethargy. It will finish and I will post it later. I found out that ghost's file was even made into a torrent.

The "missing scene" is nothing speacial. I just noticed that it was only in the TV version.

On the contrary, I believe that scene is the HIGHLIGHT of the film. I am convinced that it was in early prints of the film at festivals and on the early TV releases and was eventually removed because it was a distraction: EVERYONE commented on it. Bruno Dumont has not shied away from outraging his audiences before, so I do not know why he wussed out here. Maybe he thought Jeannette going heavy metal 5 minutes into the movie detracts from the impact of teenage Jeanne doing much the same later in the film. It is TEENAGE Jeanne who is supposed to be the badass, and with that scene with little Jeannette earlier in the film she just can not compete. Sadly, the only version I can find of this scene is in ghost's file. The quality is terrific but that scene alone has hardcoded subtitles blurred out so that the optional English subtitles are easily visible on top. If it were possible I would love to watch that scene with no indication of subtitles AT ALL. Frankly, the lyrics are just not my thing here.

Release dates: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6340264/re ... tt_dt_rdat

This California reviewer seems to have seen that scene in his viewing:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainme ... 174458.php

The film opens innocuously enough in 1425, when the 8-year-old Jeannette (Lise Leplat Prudhomme) starts singing a religious hymn while walking along the isolated French coast. But within minutes, the future Joan of Arc is belting out heavy metal tunes, as if she were channeling her inner Metallica at a Holy Mass.

[ghost]

On the contrary, I believe that scene is the HIGHLIGHT of the film. I am convinced that it was in early prints of the film at festivals and on the early TV releases and was eventually removed because it was a distraction: EVERYONE commented on it...

I really didn't know that. I just noticed that this one scene was missing in the Blu-ray when I compared it to the version that was shown on arte.
I liked the scene and I wanted it to be complete, so I removed the hardsubs and muxed it with the blu-ray rip.

Thanks for this additional info, Night.

I just watched the scene again. What a great perfomance!

[Night457]

I should not speak for "EVERYONE" as I unwisely attempted, particularly the French. Let me honestly admit that AMERICANS commented on that aspect of it, as in WTF is this weird medievel heavy metal French religious flick. They were not all enthusiastic about it either. My first reaction to THAT SCENE was to LMFAO, and I have adored Jeanne d'Arc movies for years. I had heard vaguely about the movie so I was delighted that not only was there an "uncut" version but that you shared it here! I had wondered where exactly you stole that scene from, that it was the only one that had remnants of hardsubs. Maybe if ARTE shows it again, they will make the subtitles optional?

Of course my interpretation of the film release history is my own and could be complete BS.

Note: ghost's version has a theoretically faster framerate, but with only one known additional scene it is only SLIGHTLY shorter than the Tubi streaming version. Maybe the "slower" framerate Tubi is missing more footage? I don't know and I was not going to compare. Every site I look at gives a different runtime for the movie.

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720p trimmed version with hardcoded English subtitles: [Code] [Code] [Image]
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Oh yeah, anyone interested IS AWARE that this movie IS A MUSICAL, right?

[Moonee]

So, Tubi is also missing some kind of footage/scene?

I think I'll take Ghost's version now that the missing scene has been restored/added into the movie

And yea, I know this is a musical.. I have no idea how a medieval musical movie would even work but I'm curious to find out if musical and medieval actually works together

[Night457]

Yes, my favorite scene IS MISSING from the Tubi version.

It is just set in the early 1400s because you know actual recorded history and all that, but using modern music. Yes that is weird, but no weirder than the usual film case of women in their thirties playing 19-year-old Jeanne. And the whole premise of dance musicals - people bursting out into song and doing the St. Vitus' Dance - is IMHO weird! Admittedly this particular movie does not always work in its musical experiment but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

[ghost]

I had wondered where exactly you stole that scene from, that it was the only one that had remnants of hardsubs. Maybe if ARTE shows it again, they will make the subtitles optional?

They showed it on German arte TV channel at that time with German hardsubs and I recorded it. That was the source.

Yeah, let's hope that they will repeat it again. They have the movies with soft-coded subtitles only on their website.

[Night457]

The last time I was able to record from TV broadcast was with a VCR! Now I understand why the subs were hardcoded.