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Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
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1999 may be remembered as the year of Joan of Arc: NBC created a miniseries in her honor, Carl Dreyer's long-lost The Passion of Joan of Arc was discovered in a mental hospital, and Facets re-released Jacques Rivette's Joan the Maid. Luc Besson rounds out the corpus with his stylistic and vaguely heretical grand-scale feature, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc. Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element) challenges established notions about the Maid of Orleans as he creates a decidedly more human heroine than have previous biopics. The story line is the same--a young, illiterate peasant girl...
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Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc Movie Review by B Movie Ben  (3/5/2008) |
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Luc Besson (Léon, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Danny the Dog, Transporter 1, 2, and 3)) can always be depended upon to present a film worth watching. Here he gives us a story of Joan of Arc that will probably not answer question from those who are interested in her.
Was she developmentally disable? Most...
(complete Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc review by B Movie Ben)
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