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The second of two films charting the ordeal of Joan of Arc, Jacques Rivette's Joan the Maid: The Prisons takes the teenage soldier from her greatest triumph to martyrdom. Having liberated Orleans, Joan accompanies the Dauphin to Rheims, where she observes his coronation--but her string of victories soon ends. Her voices and visions leave her, and behind-the-scenes diplomacy discourages her from continuing her campaign. Putting up a front of bravado and spirit, as much from fear as from determination to carry on the fight without divine guidance, she is soon captured, and the film concludes with her trial for heresy. Where Carl Dreyer, in his masterpiece The Trial of Joan of Arc, presents Joan as a tortured saint fairly glowing with the power of faith, Rivette portrays her as a spirited and feisty, flesh-and-blood girl--an uneducated woman driven only by her conviction that she did right. This film is bound to frustrate some viewers as it favors scenes of mundane details and small talk, and largely skips over the drama of the trial. Rivette cut his original French version by an hour for British release and the film suffers: Rivette's best work takes place in the expanse of time where character arises from the minutiae of detail. But even with the cuts this is a unique perspective on Joan, a version that favors the woman over the saint. The result is a study in faith and fortitude brought alive by Sandrine Bonnaire's sincere, tough, and vulnerable performance. --Sean Axmaker
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Jacques Rivette |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1994 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Facets Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Foreign Film - French |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 736899352998 |