Movies: Maria Falconetti

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of c...

The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in the class struggle and points out the irony of Jane Fonda's participation in the photo shoot, which was...

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French actress Maria Falconetti (1892-1946) traveled a winding road from her glory days in luminous Paris, in the 1920s, to her last days in Buenos Aires, in the late 1940s. In her strange journey through life, she found a very special character, the...

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Found footage from The Passion of Joan of Arc(1928)...

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A 12-hour installation piece comprising slowed-down footage of Renée Jeanne Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 film La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc....