THE ATTRACTION OF JOAN OF ARC

Silent presence from the origins of cinematography - views of Lumière or films of Méliès - and in the early historical epics of Cecil B. DeMille, Joan has almost spoke French with Dreyer in what would have been the first film speaking. But it was the Nazis who stole his words, before Hollywood seizes his warrior legend, where Rossellini took him to Italy in a whirlwind of light. First Preminger, then Bresson who finally gave him his words in his language, founded the insolence of the new European cinema. Then Jeanne becomes the obligatory passage of modern authors, whether it is the Soviet Panfilov, or the French Alain Cavalier, Jacques Rivette, Marcel Hanoun and Bruno Dumont. Joan of Arc on screen, that is to say the story and legend of all our cinema.