Product: The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (Region 2) (1999)
Rating: 4.0
An stumptious epic, of the maid of lauraine.
...No one in France 500 years ago knew that one peasent girlcould do everything that she accomplished everything she did was forgod and her country of France , but did Joan really hear voices fromthe heavens above was she given a sign or did she only beleive what she wanted to the small French teenager who was born in the village of doreme.Shes your typical teenager who's wild and very stubborn and at time presistant but she was also very brave and couragous and determined.When she approches the doufer of France she realizes her destiny is all the more closer after she passes a test to see who the real doufer is , she tells him about her visons that she is to lead the French army into battle at Orleaon they will take the castle underseige and with Joan they hope to gain the victory to crown there King.The battle scenes realistic and grousome and precise of the way this battle was and this film shows the scale and tragedy of battle.Avoiding a full scale war with the english she speaks her mind ...but when Joan wants to complete her mission the French don't want any part of giving her another army.The French would rather solve affairs with diplomacy but when she decides to fight she is captured and charged with treasen and called anything from a witch to a herotic she stood trial and after the trial she was sentenced to be burned to death at the stake in front of thousands of people.This is an epic movie version of this story the DVD has an inside look at the history of Joan and Trailers until Braveheart comes out this one will keep you busy great sound and cinimatography.