THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC

France | 1928 | DCP | 81 min. | French intertitles with English subtitles
Director: Carl Th. Dreyer
Cast: Renée Falconetti,  Eugène Silvain, Michel Simon
Jeanne d’Arc’s final hours are transformed by Dreyer into a transcendent meditation on faith and sacrifice, rendered with searing immediacy and spiritual intensity. Falconetti’s iconic performance, framed in haunting close-ups, captures the raw agony and divine grace of martyrdom. A supreme masterpiece of the silent era, The Passion of Joan of Arc will be presented in a version beautifully scored for chorus and orchestra by Richard Einhorn, who titled his composition “Voices of Light.”