‘The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc’ Download and Reviews

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Actors: David Bailie Milla Jovovich Joan of Arc Dustin Hoffman The Conscience Faye Dunaway Yolande D’Aragon John Malkovich Charles VII TchГ©ky Karyo Dunois Vincent Cassel Gilles de Rais Pascal Greggory The Duke of AlenГ§on Richard Ridings La Hire Desmond Harrington Aulon Timothy West Pierre Cauchon Rab Affleck Comrade StГ©phane Algoud Look Out Edwin Apps Bishop

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Directors: Luc Besson IMDB Rating: 6.3/10 out of 22,700 votes

“The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc” Movie Review

“Joan of Arc” Plot Summary

A young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors. add synopsis

A fine film

By no means a perfect film but you have to give it a lot of credit for trying to do something different with the material. I love the visual mystery of it all and the at times abstract images. For some reason it feels like there may have been a lot left out during the editing process, but a lot of these types of films have that feeling. Milla Jovovich hit a career high in The Messenger that she has never really lived up to since. What is brave about this film is that fact that it takes such a famous historical figure and does not try to deify her or make her a larger than life hero. She questions herself at every corner. She is confused half the time. Joan of arc in this film never seems to be sure of herself and is not above changing her mind at the last second like in the scene of the retracted confession. Granted, narratively this film can be a bit muddled, but as texture and atmosphere, it is hard to beat. Luc Besson has a sly wit that seems out of place here, for example the scene where an English guard asks ‘What is she doing’ cut to the French fighters ‘I don’t know!’ The score for the Messenger is very unique, with a combination of abstract synthesized sounds and large scale orchestra and choir reminiscent of a biblical epic. I must be honest in saying that I did not entirely like this film when I first saw it in the theater, but it stuck with me, so I went back for a repeat viewing and found I liked it a lot better than I thought. This is a very unique, although not entirely successful take on a very old story.

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