Joan of Arc (2019) review

The sequel to 2017's Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc has the Maid of Orléans (Lise Leplat Prudhomme) leading Charles VII's army to try to take back Paris from the English (this is during the Hundred Years' War) and be best buddies with knight (and child murderer) Gilles de Rais (Julien Manier) but eventually she's captured by the Burgundians, accused of heresy and blasphemy and, sadly, burned at the stake (only to attain immortality).  While there are less songs in this and no jamming out to metal tracks (thankfully), it's still tedious and affected: I appreciate the director's eye for casting true oddballs as her interrogators, but the trial itself is kind of laborious, and to make matters worse Bresson covered the same material in a more compelling fashion.  In an interview with HuffPost, Dumont claimed he was an atheist, which makes me wonder why he chose to work on this project in the first place (he followed that up with "It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints") ... but I suspect there are some French Intellectual games being played....