The Passion of Joan of Arc
1929
| Gaumont | Release Date: March 28, 1929 |
Starring:
André Berley, Antonin Artaud, Armand Lurville, Eugene Silvain, Jacques Arnna, Jean d'Yd, Louis Ravet, Maria Falconetti, Maurice Schutz, Michel Simon
Summary:
In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
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One of the cinema's imperishable visions of faith against injustice. [20 Feb 1997, p.9E]
Dreyer’s radical approach to constructing space and the slow intensity of his mobile style make this “difficult” in the sense that, like all the greatest films, it reinvents the world from the ground up. It’s also painful in a way that all Dreyer’s tragedies are, but it will continue to live long after most commercial movies have vanished from memory.
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Here is a deadly tiresome picture that merely makes an attempt to narrate without sound or dialog an allegedly written recorded trial in the 15th or 16th century of Joan of Arc for witchery, leading to her condemnation and burning at the stake. [10 Apr 1929, p.25]
Aug 1, 2023
The soundtrack and lead performance are wonderful but it is as a whole too one note to hold and entertain.
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