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- 1929
- Passed
- 1 h 50 m
- 1929
- Passed
- 1 h 50 m
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.
Directed By: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Written By: Joseph Delteil, Carl Theodor Dreyer
- 1929
- Passed
- 1 h 50 m
- 1929
- Passed
- 1 h 50 m
The Passion of Joan of Arc
7.9
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.
Directed By: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Written By: Joseph Delteil, Carl Theodor Dreyer
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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95% Positive
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
98
95% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
One of the greatest of all movies...Falconetti's Joan may be the finest performance ever recorded on film.
With The Passion of Joan of Arc, the world arguably saw the very best of both Dreyer and Joan – whilst also something approaching the very worst of humanity.
THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC is one of the all-time masterpieces of pure cinema, not only for its unparalleled use of camera movement, composition, and editing, but for its transcendent spirituality and intense emotional impact.
The chief reason for its legendary reputation is the brilliant match between its timeless historical subject - the trial that required Joan to defend her faith before skeptical representatives of church and state - and Dreyer's decision to film it primarily in relentless close-ups, using the sharply etched faces of his performers to suggest the invisible spiritual struggles going on beneath the drama's human dimensions.
The last silent film by Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer, it largely eschewed traditional master shots for a dazzling range of expressive, character-probing close-ups: no historical biopic has ever felt quite so unnervingly intimate.
FRANCE can well be proud of that great picture, The Passion of Jeanne d'Arc, for while Carl Dreyer, a Dane, is responsible for the conspicuously fine and imaginative use of the camera, it is the gifted performance of Maria Falconetti as the Maid of Orleans that rises above everything in this artistic achievement.
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]
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Awards
Photoplay Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
