incredible camera work... a true original!

Rating: 10/10 (24 November 2001)

The Passion of Joan of Arc is one of the most perfect movies ever made, if not the most perfect. Falconetti gives the most ecstatic, tormented performance of Joan that is undoubtedly the best acting ever caught on camera. The jarring style of editing, cuts and camera work defies all the known rules of shooting at the time, and you can see the influence this movie has had on filmmakers like Hitchcock and Fellini. This is also one of the only surviving filmed performances of Antonin Artaud, the 'enfant terrible' of French stage and cinema, and a fascinating poet and author as well. It is worth seeing for so many reasons! I highly recommend it, a perfect ten of a movie