Joan of Arc -- The Messenger.

Sony TriStar Director: Luc Besson Certificate 15

THE FRENCH ECCLESIASTICS delegated by the occupying English powers to the thankless chore of determining whether Joan of Arc was an impostor or a heretic guided by Satan have much in common with the new priesthood of popular culture. In Joan of Arc (released in the United States as The Messenger) director 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. But even with the power and money of Sony and Gaumont ...

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