Feb
22
Joan of Arc at the Stake review
February 22, 2010 | |
Anyone acquainted with the writings of the conservative All-inclusive mystic Paul Claudel transfer be best placed to fathom what his oratorio, scored by Honegger, is all about. The composer’s references to medieval religious music and French folk air might possibly be apt, but this is still a tedious proceeding. The least of all the Joan of Arc pictures, it is possibly beat understood as a give-away (of sorts) from a director to his wife/leading lady: distinguished, ‘important’ and eventually rather grunt. Rossellini had already staged the oratorio in Milan and elsewhere, but evidently rethought it payment the screen, at least to the enormousness of using microscope spectacles shots and superimpositions; the colour is balmy and soothing.