Saint Joan (1957)

I couldn't figure out where Preminger's head was, with relation to this material -- he didn't seem to be interested in exploring themes of faith/spirituality like Dreyer was, and he hardly seemed interested in the details of the France vs England conflict, penciling in…

Lencho of the Apes

Kent Jones escreveu, em 2014, um texto sobre a imprecisão dos principais textos da crítica "autorista", em função de terem sido escritos numa época pré-home video. Citava, à guisa de exemplo, os textos do Godard sobre The Wrong Man, Rivette sobre Kapò, Wood sobre Bitter…

Bruno Andrade

Bresson’s film may be the most religious one, Rivette’s the most elegant and Dreyer’s the most tortured, but this one is definitely the most cinematic. So acid and perceptive. It has a control of tone particular to Preminger, that, as a good disciple of Mizoguchi, renders…

Diogo Serafim

Kind of a black sheep within the different contexts in which they fit this movie in. Be it the probably proven rumors that Preminger tormented the poor young newcomer Jean Seberg with a living-hell headache of demands; being a slowly deceased subgenre of period piece…

Raphael Georg Klopper

Short of 'how do you like your stake?' gags, this bizarrely jokey account of Joan of Arc has been sieved so many times - Bernard Shaw's play, Graham Greene's adaptation, Otto Preminger's production - that it is almost the one about the Fabian Socialist, the Catholic Convert…

Richmond Hill

If revelation is to be accepted as divine, it must ultimately be capable of being brought into harmony with reason; otherwise it would demand of man that he renounce the very faculty which distinguishes him as a moral being. Reason, therefore, must have the right to test…

Konstantin Cherganov

Otto Preminger's flick, with a script by 2catholic-agnostic" Graham Greene, tells Joan of Arc's story in a very serious and a bit dry-heavy way. Jean Seberg plays Joan as young and brave, fighting against powerful men in church and government — which feels feminist. But…

Reto Hochstrasser

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an event that creates faith does not deceive. Saint Joan's camera, it's mise en scène, is constantly destabilizing itself. Splitting through axis of rotation, disrupting spatial planes, and shifting around ideological expressions. The advantage of Preminger's classicism is…

Nomi Billie "Jo" Gertrud Kammerer