0 Comments on The Passion of Joan of Arc
Trending
Top
New
The Passion of Joan of Arc
An Immortal Screen Classic that will live Forever!
An Immortal Screen Classic that will live Forever!
Drama, History - 1928
8.1
98%
N/A
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Vampyr
(1932)
Traveler Allan Gray arrives in the village of Courtempierre and takes lodgings in a small inn. Gray has a great interest in the supernatural, particularly vampires. He's barely settled in when he feels a sinister force descending upon him. In the night an old man enters his room to tell him 'she must not die'. One of the old man's daug...
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Ordet
(1955)
The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle child Johannes has become delusional and proclaims that he is Jesus Christ himself. When Mikkel's wife, Inger goes into a difficult childbirth, e...
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Day of Wrath
(1943)
In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. The intervention of Anne's older but kindly husband, Pastor Absalon saved her mother -- but now, urged on by his overbearing mother, he refuses to help Mar...
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Gertrud
(1964)
Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert pianist, who falls short of her desire for lasting affection. When an old lover returns to...
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Master of the House
(1925)
A bully browbeats his wife and children until he meets his match in the woman who raised him.

Details

Rated:
Passed
Runtime:
82 min
Release date:
21 Apr 1928
Country:
FR
Languages:
xx
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
5 wins & 2 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Few films have earned classic status more than Carl Dreyer's 1928 silent study of the 15th-Century teenager who helped lead French troops against the British only to be tried as a heretic.
– John Monaghan,
Detroit Free Press,
24 Mar 2006
fresh:
It is the gifted performance of Maria Falconetti as the Maid of Orleans that rises above everything in this artistic achievement.
– Mordaunt Hall,
New York Times,
25 Mar 2006
fresh:
Dreyer's most universally acclaimed masterpiece remains one of the most staggeringly intense films ever made.
– Tony Rayns,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
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.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
9 Feb 2007
rotten:
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.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 May 2008
See more...
Press esc to close