Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les prisons (1994)

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Director:

Jacques Rivette

Writers:

Pascal Bonitzer (dialogue)
Christine Laurent (dialogue)

Release Date:

9 February 1994 (France)

Genre:

Biography | Drama | History

Plot Keywords:

Joan Of Arc | Sequel | Stake | Shot In The Forehead | 1430s

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Sandrine Bonnaire	...	Jeanne d'Arc
André Marcon	...	Charles, Dauphin de France
Jean-Louis Richard	...	La Trémoille
Marcel Bozonnet	...	Regnault de Chartres
Patrick Le Mauff	...	Jean Bâtard d'Orléans
Didier Sauvegrain	...	Raoul de Gaucourt
Jean-Pierre Lorit	...	Jean d'Alençon
Bruno Wolkowitch	...	Gilles de Laval
Romain Lagarde	...	Nicolas
Florence Darel	...	Jeanne d'Orléans
Pierre Baillot	...	Jacques Boucher
Germain Rousseau	...	Le confesseur du Dauphin
Emmanuel de Chauvigny	...	Gros-Garrau
Mathias Jung	...	Jean Pasquerel
Mathieu Busson	...	Louis de Coutes

Also Known As:

Joan the Maid 2.: The Prisons

Runtime:

176 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Portugal:M/12 | Sweden:7 | UK:PG

Filming Locations:

France

Company:

France 3 Cinéma

Movie Connections:

Follows Jeanne la Pucelle I - Les batailles (1994)

La Pucelle 11

My only major problem with Parts 1 and 2 of La Pucelle is that, historically, the guy who was the eminence gris and string-puller in the fight against La Pucelle and her final capture and trial is not in the movie. That guy is John of Lancaster the Duke of Bedford who was Regent of France at the time. Warwick,who is in the movie, was his puppet and enabled him to stay in the background while the worst things were perpetrated against La Pucelle inside and outside the courtroom.He is on record as regarding her as "the limb of the fiend" that is the devil's body part the worst calumny you could hurl at somebody in those days. Why Bedford was omitted from the movie and replaced by a stooge just beggars belief despite the fact that this was a French movie.It's like Hamlet without the Prince.Credit to a later movie 'Joan of Arc -The Messenger' that Bedford is nailed for his leading part.Clearly the definitive movie on La Pucelle remains to be made,although I consider that ,despite that strategic omission, La Pucelle remains a great movie and worth seeing.