For those who are into French history...knock yourselves out--this set is good enough to rent at least. But as a film, it falls short and the presentation can't buoy it up.
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02/20/08
Joan the Maid - The Battles/The Prisons (1994)
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Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 4
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 47 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In these two extraordinary companion films French New Wave director Jacques Rivette offers a fresh, brilliant reinterpretation of one of the great historical figures of the millennium, Joan of Arc. Named one of the year's ten best films... [More]
Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Andre Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard, Marcel Nozonnet
Director: Jacques Rivette
Reviews for Joan the Maid - The Battles/The Prisons
1 - 5 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Austere and handsome, propelled by an unadorned but magnetic performance by Sandrine Bonnaire.
02/20/08
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Stripped of much of the incident that one would expect from an expansive biopic, but still remarkably satisfying, Rivette's two-film epic finds a psychological realism that's only enhanced by his unorthodox approach.
10/27/02
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