The last days of Joan of Arc's life.
A classic film, that's among the first masterpieces of the 7th art, a black and white silent film. Thanks to an effort to restore it in 1985, the film can still be watched today. Based on the real transcripts of the trial and divided into 3 stages: the trial, the arguments/doubts and the burning at the stake, the film skillfully presents the suffering of a simple Joan, with her unwavering faith and her completely natural and almost naive reactions to the attempts at manipulating her by the political forces that supported the English invaders. Carl Dreyer was great at managing with the tools of the time, so he focused on the intensity of the characters' faces (especially Maria Falconetti's), with the rest of the action amplified by skillfully interposed scenes and clever angles, with a style that is easy to just summarize as " efficiency through minimalism".
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
With: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Rating: 8/10
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