Joan the Maid Blu-ray (Joan the Maid Part 1: The Battles / Joan the Maid Part 2: The Prisons | Jeanne la Pucelle) (original) (raw)

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Joan the Maid Part 1: The Battles / Joan the Maid Part 2: The Prisons | Jeanne la Pucelle Cohen Media Group | 1994 | 2 Movies | 336 min | Rated R | Dec 03, 2019

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Joan the Maid

(1994)

Joan the Maid Blu-ray delivers stunning video and audio in this enjoyable Blu-ray release

DescriptionJoan the Maid is a two-part 1994 French film directed by Jacques Rivette. It chronicles the life of Joan of Arc. This film was released in two parts: Joan the Maid, Part 1: The Battles and Joan the Maid, Part 2: The Prisons.

For more about Joan the Maid and the Joan the Maid Blu-ray release, see Joan the Maid Blu-ray Review published by Jeffrey Kauffman on December 10, 2019 where this Blu-ray release scored 3.5 out of 5.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire

, Tatiana Moukhine

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Joan the Maid Blu-ray Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, December 10, 2019

There has been no dearth of film and/or television properties about Joan of Arc, including such well remembered efforts as the 1928 silent classic by Carl Theodore Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc. Perhaps surprisingly, Dreyer's film was not the first to exploit the strange and inspiring story of the so-called "Maid of Orl�ans", and in fact none other than the redoubtable Georges M�li�s made a silent about Joan in either 1899 or 1900, depending on the source, appropriately titled Joan of Arc, which rather incredibly is not even the first "film" about her, if the IMDb is to be believed. As early as 1898, a very short film called Execution of Joan of Arc appeared. Dreyer's 1928 film was also not alone during that general time frame in depicting the tale, with a 1929 effort called Saint Joan the Maid offering what seems to be one of the first French versions of Joan's story. Several later films have entered the annals of cinematic history for one reason or the other, including the 1948 film Joan of Arc which featured Ingrid Bergman in the title role of a film based on a play by Maxwell Anderson and which was directed by the legendary Victor Fleming. No recounting of Joan's many film "appearances" would be complete without at least a passing mention of the film which introduced Jean Seberg to global audiences, Otto Preminger's still rather controversial 1957 opus Saint Joan, which itself had a rather vaunted literary provenance, having been adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play by none other than Graham Greene. And so some jaded types may be wondering, "Do we really need another Joan of Arc movie?", to which French auteur Jacques Rivette evidently replied, "No � you need two Joan of Arc movies," as evidenced by his two part epic Joan the Maid, which arrived in 1994 and which required ticket buying patrons to pony up for two admission prices in order to catch both "installments". Rivette's diptych about Joan may actually recall yet another film about the martyr, Robert Bresson's 1962 offering The Trial of Joan of Arc , with both French helmsman eschewing some of the traditional tropes of "epic historical" films in favor of a more intimate, personal depiction.

For reviews of the two films (i.e., parts) included on this release, please click on the following links:

Joan the Maid Part 1: The Battles Blu-ray review

Joan the Maid II: The Prisons Blu-ray review

Joan the Maid Blu-ray, Overall Score and Recommendation

Joan the Maid probably doesn't have the sheer emotional force of the classic Dreyer film, but it's rather bracing if awfully long winded, and it has a rather rugged aspect courtesy of lots of location work and a handsome if basic production design. I'm not sure Bonnaire "de-glams" enough to ever make Joan completely believable, but many of the supporting performances are colorful, and Rivette offers some really sumptuous framings along the way. Technical merits are solid, and at least for those with an interest in this subject, Joan the Maid comes Recommended.

							Danton

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The Cohen Media Group has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of Jacques Rivette's Joan the Maid (Part 1: The Battles and Part 2: The Prisons), starring Andr� Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard, Jean-Marie Richier, Sandrine Bonnaire, and Tatiana Moukhine. The two-disc ...

• Cohen Media: New 4K Restoration of Joan the Maid Parts 1 and 2... - October 3, 2019

The Cohen Media Group will release on Blu-ray Jacques Rivette's Joan the Maid (Part 1: The Battles and Part 2: The Prisons), starring Andr� Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard, Jean-Marie Richier, Sandrine Bonnaire, and Tatiana Moukhine. The two-disc set will be available ...

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