Joan Of Arc (1948) DVDRip (SiRiUs sHaRe)

Joan Of Arc (1948)



In the Fifteenth Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen years old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army and conquerors Orleans. When her army is ready to attack Paris, the corrupt Charles sells his country to England and dismiss the army. Joan is arrested, sold to the Burgundians England and submitted to a shameful political trial in Rouen castle.



Ingrid Bergman ... Joan of Arc

Francis L. Sullivan ... Pierre Cauchon (Count-Bishop of Beauvais)

J. Carrol Naish ... John, Count of Luxembourg (Joan's captor)

Ward Bond ... La Hire

Shepperd Strudwick ... Father Massieu (Joan's bailiff)

Gene Lockhart ... Georges de la Trémouille

John Emery ... Jean - Duke d'Alencon

Leif Erickson ... Dunois, Bastard of Orleans

Cecil Kellaway ... Jean le Maistre (Inquisitor of Rouen)

José Ferrer ... The Dauphin, Charles VII, later King of France

Selena Royle ... Isabelle d'Arc (Joan's mother)

Robert Barrat ... Jacques d'Arc (Joan's Father)

Jimmy Lydon ... Pierre d'Arc (Joan's younger brother)

Rand Brooks ... Jean d'Arc (Joan's older brother)

Roman Bohnen ... Durand Laxart (Joan's uncle)



Director: Victor Fleming



Runtime: 145 mins



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I don't know just what to think of this film quite yet.



First, I don't think Ingrid Bergman ever gave a bad performance, but this was not one of her more inspired efforts. I think she felt genuine passion for this role, and in fairness she did a good job. I think what's troubling me is that I have not seen the "uncut" version that everyone is talking about. There supposedly exists more footage of the trial, which I think would give Bergman more screen time to suffer nobly, adding to the power of the story. But what I have seen is not to be dismissed entirely; her character is human and is not perfect (as evidenced in her signing of the confession). An inferior movie would have depicted her as flawless.



But the greater problem I had with "Joan of Arc" is its meandering progression. I kept alternating between being genuinely moved and turning my nose up in indifference. Joan's heavenly visions and her pleas at the trial, as well as her abuse in the jail cell, are very well-done and are quite touching. And the battle scene is great; this is perhaps the best depiction of medieval warfare prior to "Braveheart."



But the sanctimony begins to ride high. All those actors in their heavily-padded velvet robes are too theatrical. A little humor would help to break the pompousness (even a movie as drab as this needs a bit here and there). I mentioned the battle scenes, and good they are, but Bergman looks downright silly running through the carnage chanting her patriotic spirituals. So maybe there is a bit of comic relief after all (albeit unintentional). I think this was well-intended, and I am not cynical to pictures with religious themes (on the contrary, I quite enjoy them) but the holy icing is a trifle too thick here.



And the length of time from which Joan first hears the voices and then becomes known and loved by everyone in France seems to happen overnight. I found this narrative jumbled and a bit stretchy, especially when the army leaders disobey their superiors to follow Joan's battle plans. Not to be believed. I kept comparing the movie to "The Song of Bernadette" because both depicted lives of saints, and "The Adventures of Robin Hood" because both were colorful stories of legendary medieval figures. Though it holds its own, "Joan of Arc" is not as good as either of these two other films. If you want to see the supreme film achievement of the Joan of Arc story, you must see the silent masterpiece "The Passion of Joan of Arc."



Still, the movie ends on a strong, emotionally satisfying note. The story is ultimately triumphant because we in the 20th century know of Joan's secured place in history. Not one of Ingrid's best but still worthy of a look.



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In Europa,I've often heard people complaining .Why has the movie been boiled down to a digest of barely 100 min? In France,Joan's native country,it's a scandal!It was broadcast on the history channel yesterday and again in the "short" editing.It seems that many scenes were replaced by a voice over which is infuriating ,cause Fleming's version of "Joan Of Arc" ,although inferior to Preminger's and Dreyer's works, is quite interesting.



Although too old for the part,Ingrid Bergman had enough charisma to make you forget that Joan was 17 when her epic began.Fleming's style is far away from Dreyer's bare aestheticism or Luc Besson's video game battles.Holy picture best describes his way of filming Joan,which makes sense ,cause it begins with the heroine's canonization (only in 1920!).



Good things:La Tremouille's bad influence on the king;Joan who did not realize in 1430 that fighting had been replaced by negotiations;the abjuration: in Rouen,you can see a commemorative plaque which reads "Here ,in 1431, Joan of Arc suffered the infamous ordeal of abjuration" .On the "Place du Vieux Marché" ,where she was burnt alive,another plaque reads "To you,Joan,who knew that a hero's grave was the heart of the living." (André Malraux)



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In the Fifteenth Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen years old farm girl Joan of Arc (Ingrid Bergman) claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII (José Ferrer) as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army and conquerors Orleans. When her army is ready to attack Paris, the corrupt Charles sells his country to England and dismiss the army. Joan is arrested, sold to the Burgundians England and submitted to a shameful political trial in Rouen castle, when in 1931 she is sentenced to burn at stake.



The story of Joan D'Arc is one of the most beautiful I have seen in the cinema, and Victor Fleming's version is no exception. I have seen Carl Dryer's and Robert Bresson's (the best), Luc Besson's (the weakest – actually a means to promote his girlfriend Mila Jovovich), Christian Duguay's (a great television version with Leelee Sobieski in the lead role) and all of them a good movies because the story of this martyr and saint "Maid of Lorraine" is actually awesome and doomed to please the audiences. Her history shows faith, betrayal and corruption in a period of treachery and domination of the powerful Catholic Church in Europe. Ingrid Bergman is miscast in the role of a fourteen to nineteen years old girl that can be confused with a man, but she has a great and shining performance and deserved her nomination to the Oscar. The debut of José Ferrer could not be better, performing a shallow and corrupt king. The Oscar winning cinematography is very beautiful for a 1948 movie. The DVD released in Brazil is completely restored but unfortunately there is a bug in chapter 6, stopping the movie. My vote is nine.



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* This film was a dream project of Ingrid Bergman, who had tried for years to have it produced.



* According to some biographies of Ingrid Bergman, Howard Hughes saved her from possible injury during a visit to the set when she fell off her horse. He caught her, but rather awkwardly, with one hand firmly on her crotch. Hughes made sure no photographs of the incident were taken (or survived).



* Ingrid Bergman and Stephen Roberts are the only actors from the play "Joan of Lorraine", on which this film is based, to repeat their roles in the film.



* The film was not really a commercial success upon release, but only partly due to RKO's poor publicity campaign (which producer Walter Wanger blamed on then-RKO president Howard Hughes). Audiences stayed away from the film when Ingrid Bergman's affair with director Roberto Rossellini was revealed while the movie was in release, because they considered it blasphemous for an adulterous woman to be playing a saint.



* The company that produced this film was not the same Sierra Pictures that had produced silent films. It was an all-new company formed by Walter Wanger, Victor Fleming and Ingrid Bergman. The company produced no more films after this one.



* Maxwell Anderson's play, "Joan of Lorraine", from which this film was adapted, is a play-within-a-play, and its plot not only relates the story of Joan of Arc but also shows the effect that Joan's story has on an acting company that is performing it, especially the actress playing the leading role. Ingrid Bergman had wanted to retain the play's structure for the film, but the studio thought the idea was uncinematic and would not appeal to moviegoers, so the Joan of Arc scenes were expanded by Anderson and Andrew Solt, and the film's plot was altered to tell only the story of Joan. The title was also changed to the more easily identifiable "Joan of Arc". In contrast to "Joan of Lorraine", in which all the actors played two or more roles, the majority of actors in "Joan of Arc" played only one role. However, quite a bit of Anderson's original stage dialogue was retained for the film.



* At one time, MGM was scheduled to release the film, but they eventually backed out due to disagreements with Sierra Pictures.



* José Ferrer's film debut.



* The last directorial effort of Victor Fleming.