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Passion Of Joan Of Arc / La Passion De Jeanne D' Arc / La Passion De Jeanne D'arc (PG)
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7
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9.29
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| Starring |
Rene Falconetti  , Eugene Silvain, Maurice Schutz
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Directed by:
Carl Dreyer
Written by:
Carl Dreyer
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1928 |
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France |
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| Colour: |
BW |
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| Length: |
85 |
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Joan of Arc (Rene Falconetti, pictured) is interrogated before being burned at the stake. |
Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Like Ordet, this is a rumination by Dreyer on the inevitable conflict between individual faith and organized religion. Rene Falconetti gives one of the great silent screen performances in this, her only film. It was a critical success but a box-office flop, and it's very hard going, partly because of the need for long title-cards to reveal what the characters are saying. And it's intense: Rudolph Mate's photography concentrates pitilessly on the faces of Joan's judges, who are no oil paintings and wear no make-up. To say that virtually all of the film is shot in close-up makes it sound duller than it is - Dreyer skilfully keeps his camera and Joan's accusers on the move, while she remains motionless at the centre, constricted, penned in by her persecutors. We come to share her sense of claustrophobia, which is another reason why the film is so painful to watch.
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