Jeanne d'Arc: My name is Joan. I'm 19.
Jeanne d'Arc: I'm sent by God and have no business here. Send me back to God from whom I came.
Bishop Cauchon: You must tell your judge the truth.

Jeanne d'Arc: Beware of calling yourself my judge.
Jeanne d'Arc: I heard it in church. There was light all around. There was always a light. The third time I recognized the voice of an angel. It told me to lift the siege at Orléans. First I was to go to Vaucouleurs. The voice told me what would happen.
Bishop Cauchon: Is it an angel's voice or is it directly from God?

Jeanne d'Arc: It's the voice of St. Catherine and St. Margaret. They wear beautiful crowns.

Bishop Cauchon: How do you know it's those two?

Jeanne d'Arc: They began to guide me seven years ago.
Bishop Cauchon: Which do you love more: your flag or your sword?

Jeanne d'Arc: My flag, 40 times over.

Bishop Cauchon: Who carried the flag?

Jeanne d'Arc: I did, so as to kill no one. I've never killed.
Jeanne d'Arc: I rely on God. The voice is soft and speaks the language of France.
Jeanne d'Arc: My capture must please Our Lord, so it's for the best. How could he mislead me when he comforts me every day?
Jeanne d'Arc: I'd rather give my soul to God than be in English hands.
Bishop Cauchon: Do your saints hate the English?

Jeanne d'Arc: They love what Our Lord loves and hate what he hates.

Bishop Cauchon: Does God hate the English?

Jeanne d'Arc: Whether he loves or hates them I don't know. I only know they'll be driven from France or die here.
Jeanne d'Arc: I place my trust in God and love him with all my heart. He is my judge and king of heaven and earth.
Jeanne d'Arc: I've done no wrong. I believe in the articles of faith and the ten commandments. I trust in the synod and pope and wish to believe what the church believes.
Jeanne d'Arc: In women's clothes, I was beaten and trampled. An English lord tried to rape me three times.
Jeanne d'Arc: I prefer death to shackles.
Jeanne d'Arc: I'd rather die than endure what I'm enduring.
Jeanne d'Arc: I wish to die, yes, but not by burning. My body is pure. It mustn't be reduced to ashes.
Jeanne d'Arc: Pray for me. I forgive the evil done me.
Jeanne d'Arc: My voices were from God. All I did, I did at God's command. My voices did not lie. My visions were from God.

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Kamille 2022-04-23 07:04:32

This Joan is too beautiful
America 2022-03-14 14:12:30

Proto-Straubian. One of the best Bressons, with a rare nuanced treatment of different voices. The ambience made by pen/chains/boots is viciously harsh, and Joan of Arc (who happens to have no shoes) ) almost the only way of uttering it is as quoted speech: the fifteenth-century text, the angel's word; the abstract voice purified, it promises, it bestows, presents the message of God. These words urgently appeal to the book Really listen - cut out the Q&A interval to give the "head-to-back" an even higher intensity than in the Westerns (note that Joan of Arc and the Bishop never share the same picture): Raising your eyes is like pulling When the sword is unsheathed, a clip is a confrontation. Sontag believes that the actors in the film are inadvertently infected by the situation and deviate from Bresson's ideal of human model, but this is actually the most moving part - the "reader" can no longer Indifferent in the face of absolutely objective things (history), the text and the weather must imprint it on the face, just as the monks were sweating and weeping at the end, but we can no longer distinguish whether it was caused by fire, smoke, or sadness.