A Saint for Sore Eyes; Films Keep Telling the Joan of Arc Story--and Getting It Wrong

From: The Washington Post | Date: November 7, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Joan of Arc has inspired innumerable writers since her death more than 500 years ago, from Voltaire to George Bernard Shaw. And since the 1916 "Joan the Woman," and Carl Theodor Dreyer's classic "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928), she has also become a perennial subject for film directors.

What is this endless fascination with the teenage French peasant who liberated the French from English occupation five centuries ago? Is it her divinely inspired heroism? The empowerment of a woman in a patriarchal world? Or could it be the enticing prospect of a young woman going up in flames?

As Luc ...

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