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Saint Joan

Saint Joan

1957
Drama
1h 50m
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch. (imdb)
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Saint Joan

1957
Drama
1h 50m
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Rated 03 May 2012
86
79th
My vote for the best George Bernard Shaw play adaptations--yes, above My Fair Lady :o The acting is unfairly judged, as it is marvelous, and the critique is balanced and smart.
Rated 01 Apr 2011
54
40th
Preminger and Greene seem too enchanted with the original material: the movie has an unpleasant, pathetic pride, in a Hollywood classical fashion that just doesn't suit Joan of Arc's story.
Rated 12 Mar 2021
95
89th
What I love is that this was made in the style of A Christmas Carol, and Joan is one of the ghosts, while the guy that sentenced her to death is Scrooge. This makes the dramatic story more digestible. This is an adaptation of the play about Joan of Arc by playwright George Bernard Shaw, and my spirit-world soulmate, Jean Arthur loved this so much, she said that her biggest regret was not being able to marry Shaw, like mine is not being able to marry her. I can see why she loved it.
Rated 05 Feb 2010
74
24th
Neither Preminger nor Seberg is intelligent or gifted enough to bring this off.
Rated 13 Apr 2018
85
59th
Viewed April 12, 2018.
Rated 01 Jul 2018
98
92nd
In many ways, this feels like Preminger's Lang film; there is a kind of scientific precision to everything, and a very peculiar rhythm arise, especially evident in the dialogue. But one could scare imagine that the way Preminger shoots this could ever be replicated, any where or by anyone else. The sheer will and violence displayed here left me in awe. It is enrapturing cinema, with some of the most sublime grace in any film I've yet had the pleasure to experience.
Rated 08 Sep 2018
39
14th
For a film about Joan of Arc, there was hardly any fire or spirit in the telling. Embarrassingly didactic at times - Preminger's so caught up about speaking to and about 1957, he completely forgets the importance of 1429.
Rated 14 Jan 2024
75
64th
The near-total removal of scene 4 hobbles the institutional/political critique, placing a greater burden on Seberg, as if she didn't have enough to deal with. Watching with knowledge of the director's methods, a kind of shadow trial seems to be taking place, inferences upon projections, Preminger's unheard demands almost loud enough to muffle the star's inexpert breathing till it all goes up in actual flames and you're seeing Seberg literally scarred for life. And yet krypt isn't exactly wrong.

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