The Trial of Joan of Arc
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The Trial of Joan of Arc | |
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Directed by | Robert Bresson |
Produced by | Agnès Delahaie |
Written by | Robert Bresson |
Starring |
Florence Delay Jean-Claude Fourneau Roger Honorat Marc Jacquier |
Release dates | 1962 |
Running time | 65 min |
Language | French/English |
The Trial of Joan of Arc (French: Procès de Jeanne d'Arc) is a 1962 historical film by the French director Robert Bresson. Joan of Arc is played by Florence Delay.
As usual in Bresson's mature films, The Trial of Joan of Arc stars non-professional performers and is filmed in an extremely spare, restrained style. Bresson's screenplay is drawn from the transcriptions of Joan's trial and rehabilitation.
Bresson's Joan of Arc is often compared with The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) by Carl Theodor Dreyer. Bresson compared that film unfavorably with his own, expressing his dislike of the actors' "grotesque buffooneries" in Dreyer's film.[1]
Cast
- Florence Delay ... Jeanne d'Arc
- Jean-Claude Fourneau ... Bishop Cauchon
- Roger Honorat ... Jean Beaupere
- Marc Jacquier ... Jean Lemaitre
- Jean Gillibert ... Jean de Chatillon
- Michel Herubel ... Frère Isambert de la Pierre
- André Régnier ... D'Estivet
- Arthur Le Bau ... Jean Massieu
- Marcel Darbaud ... Nicolas de Houppeville
- Philippe Dreux ... Frère Martin Ladvenu
- Paul-Robert Mimet ... Guillaume Erard
- Gérard Zingg ... Jean-Lohier
Awards
The film won the Special Jury Prize at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. [2]
See also
- Joan of Arc in art
References
- ↑ Quoted in Paul Schrader, Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (1972), ch.2
- ↑ "Festival de Cannes: The Trial of Joan of Arc". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
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Preceded by Mother Joan of the Angels |
Special Jury Prize, Cannes 1962 tied with L'Eclisse |
Succeeded by Harakiri tied with The Cassandra Cat |
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