Product: The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (Region 2) (1999)
Rating: 3.0
Historically accurate, and stimulating...
As a student of history, I loved this movie... It explored depths of Joan's character that most books don't explore. It's amazing how many "history" books to this date still write about Joan of Arc in a "Christ-Like" light, because she claims to have had divine conversation with the almighty. This is the first time I have seen anybody delve into Joan's character as a possible schizo / mentally ill person -- and I love how she begins to figure out that she is a nut case as her world comes crumbling down. Of course, if you are a romantic and choose to believe in the myth of Joan of Arc, then it leaves you enough tidbits to keep carrying on that vision -- Dustin Hoffman is excellent as the Devil.