The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
Synopsis: Danish director Carl Dreyer's silent masterpiece still looks as astonishingly avant-garde today as it did 70 years ago. And stage actress Renée Falconetti remains the definitive Joan of Arc: As the maiden who led an army in defense of France, was burned at the stake as a heretic, and later canonized as a saint, she gives one of the screen's most remarkable performances. Dreyer chronicles Joan's trial and execution almost entirely in close-ups, isolating faces and objects at startling angles...
