The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
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Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151137/
Release Date: 12 November 1999
Genre: Adventure | Biography | Drama | True Story
Stars: Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich and Rab Affleck
Quality: BluRay 720p
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Release Info: NFO
Subtitle: Indonesia, English
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) Movie Review
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), In 1412, a young girl called Jeanne is born in Domrémy, France. The times are hard: The Hunderd Years war with England has been going on since 1337, English knights and soldiers roam the country. Jeanne develops into a very religious young woman, she confesses several times a day. At the age of 13, she has her first vision and finds a sword. When coming home with it, she finds the English leveling her home town.
Years after that, in 1428, she knows her mission is to be ridding France of the English and so sets out to meet Charles, the Dauphin. In his desperate military situation, he welcomes all help and gives the maiden a chance to prove her divine mission. After the successful liberation of Orléans and Reims, the Dauphin can be crowned traditionally in the cathedral of Reims – and does not need her anymore, since his wishes are satisfied. Jeanne d’Arc gets set up in his trap and is imprisoned by the Burgundians.
Milla Jovovich may have been the only woman who could have portrayed a ‘Joan’ believable enough for such a film and approach as that taken by Luc Besson, one which stops just short of suggesting some sort of ‘shamanic visionary’ as opposed to a character labelled everything from ‘deranged schizophrenic’ to ‘lesbian’, simply due to attire, while ‘hearing voices’ (all historical facts).
The key ingredient: the eyes. Not since Faye Dunnaway’s unforgetable portrayal in “The Eyes of Laura Mars” (1976), who coincidentally co-stars as an excellent Yolande d’Aragon herewith, has someone captivated an audience simply by a look or a glance. Spell-binding, riveting, and as true to the historical record as one can expect for this most noble of French heroines, while adding a plausible childhood, Besson, Jovovich, an excellent supporting cast and the film were all but ignored for the honours they so richly deserved. Rating five stars (of five) and a film I’ll never forget!
