Joan the Maid 2: The Prisons

1994 [FRENCH]

Action / Biography / Drama / History

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 88% · 8 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 810 810

joan of arc historical drama 15th century historical epic jeanne d'arc

Director

Jacques Rivette Photo
Jacques Rivette

Top cast

Nathalie Richard Photo
Nathalie Richard as Catherine de la Rochelle
Edith Scob Photo
Edith Scob as Jeanne de Béthune
Michael Goldman Photo
Michael Goldman as Warwick
David Lowe Photo
David Lowe as Un jeune Lord
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1.58 GB
1280*682
French 2.0
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24 fps
2 hr 56 min
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3.25 GB
1920*1024
French 5.1
NR
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24 fps
2 hr 56 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Zaffachaud99

La Pucelle 11

My only major problem with Parts 1 and 2 of La Pucelle is that, historically, the guy who was the eminence gris and string-puller in the fight against La Pucelle and her final capture and trial is not in the movie. That guy is John of Lancaster the Duke of Bedford who was Regent of France at the time. Warwick,who is in the movie, was his puppet and enabled him to stay in the background while the worst things were perpetrated against La Pucelle inside and outside the courtroom.He is on record as regarding her as "the limb of the fiend" that is the devil's body part the worst calumny you could hurl at somebody in those days. Why Bedford was omitted from the movie and replaced by a stooge just beggars belief despite the fact that this was a French movie.It's like Hamlet without the Prince.Credit to a later movie 'Joan of Arc -The Messenger' that Bedford is nailed for his leading part.Clearly the definitive movie on La Pucelle remains to be made,although I consider that ,despite that strategic omission, La Pucelle remains a great movie and worth seeing.
Reviewed by ken_bethell 5 / 10

Under-funded and over-ambition Part 2

What I said regarding Part 1 is still irrelevant for Part 2. Both films lack the ability of conveying the magnitude of events in France at that period. The relief of Orleans is said to have been an engagement involving around 15,000 soldiers but at no time do you feel it is more than a skirmish. When Joan, with a half-dozen soldiers in support, shouts up at the walls of Paris for its surrender I can only surmise that arrows were shot at her because no rotten fruit was available! Yes I know she probably had an army behind her but that's not the impression the viewer gets. Such events as heroic leaders leading mass armies into battle may have been clichéd by films like El Cid but they still stir the spirit. This film never does. The war of words that follow with her imprisonment and trial by the English lacked any intellectual substance. Interestingly the film does not portray the English as the villains.This is reserved for the duplicitous French noblemen. France created St.Joan and clearly accepts the blame for her demise which is the only message this film conveys.
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