![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “From Saturday, March 10, until Saturday, March 17,” she writes, “Joan was interrogated in her cell nine times. Perhaps most astounding about Harrison’s “Joan of Arc’’ is the seamlessness with which she pulls the camera way, way back to sweeping historic panoramas and thoughtful feminist commentary, then narrows the lens to give us detailed, lyrical close-ups that support her admiration for, and knowledge of, her subject. Born in 1412 into a France that had endured famine, crop failures, bubonic plague, and 75 years of enemy occupation, “Joan, who showcased her virginity as both proof and symbol of her virtue, believed God had punished the French because ‘it was his will to suffer them to be beaten for their sins.’ ” ![]()
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