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Joan the Maid | |
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Jeanne la pucelle | |
Directed by | Jacques Rivette |
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Cinematography | William Lubtchansky |
Edited by | Nicole Lubtchansky |
Music by | Jordi Savall |
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Distributed by | BAC Films |
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Running time | 336 minutes |
Country | France |
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Joan the Maid (French: Jeanne la pucelle) is a 1994 French historical film directed by Jacques Rivette. Chronicling the life of Joan of Arc from the French perspective, it was released in two parts: Joan the Maid, Part 1: The Battles (French: Les Batailles) and Joan the Maid, Part 2: The Prisons (French: Les Prisons).
In the original version, Jeanne la pucelle I: Les batailles ran for 160 minutes, and Jeanne la pucelle II: Les prisons for 176 minutes, totalling 336 minutes.
American DVD releases removed significant portions; Joan the Maid: The Battles ran for 110 minutes, and Joan the Maid: The Prisons for 116 minutes, totalling 226 minutes.
A 4K restoration[1] was released in August 2019,[2] with a Blu-ray seeing release in December 2019.[3]
Glenn Kenny calls the film "essential cinema", in which the director (Rivette) "... applies a cinematic style that’s both impassioned and elegantly simple and rational to Joan’s inner and outer life, using long takes and brilliantly considered camera movements throughout."[4]