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Day of Wrath
Why this pick
Dreyer again turns institutional judgment into an austere, devastating moral ordeal, using stark compositions and intensely expressive faces rather than conventional melodrama.
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MOVIE1928 1h 22m FRA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
After having led numerous military battles against the English during the Hundred Years' War, Joan of Arc is captured near Compiegne and eventually brought to Rouen, Normandy to stand trial for heresy by French clergymen loyal to the English.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Renée Jeanne Falconetti
Saint Joan of Arc