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Screening Joan of Arc.(Film)(Critical Essay)
IN NOVEMBER 1999, shortly after I'd filed a brief review of Luc Besson's The Messenger: Joan of Arc, I came across in the pages of History Today an article by Ronald F. Maxwell, The Messenger: Dumbed Down Dame--Is Poetic Licence a Licence to Kill?" Maxwell's views were very different from mine; I'd praised the authentic brutality of the film's treatment of the trial, and that Besson had shown Joan as warrior rather than victim. Maxwell, on the other hand, believed the film showed the Maid as victimiser: "Luc Besson attempts to prove what even the best prosecuting clerics of her day could not: that Joan was a demented, misled, hysterical, confused and guilt-ridden phony." ...
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