THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC

Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent masterpieces of the silent era. Chronicling the trial of Joan of Arc in the hours leading up to her execution, Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer depicts her torment with startling immediacy, employing an array of techniques—expressionistic lighting, interconnected sets, painfully intimate close-ups—to immerse viewers in her subjective experience. Anchoring Dreyer's audacious formal experimentation is a legendary performance by Renée Falconetti, whose haunted face channels both the agony and the ecstasy of martyrdom.

"Dreyer's most universally acclaimed masterpiece remains one of the most staggeringly intense films ever made." - Tony Rayns, Time Out

"This is neither a hopeful nor a hopeless film, but one of feeling so colossal and resplendent, it can't be constrained by prison or consumed by fire." - Jaime N. Christley

"Dreyer's radical approach to constructing space and the slow intensity of his mobile style make this 'difficult' in the sense that, like all the greatest films, it reinvents the world from the ground up." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

SCREENING FOUR TIMES WITH FOUR DIFFERENT SOUNDTRACKS:
1/26 - Richard Einhorn’s 1994 libretto Voices of Light paired to the film
1/28 - an original score by Portishead’s Adrian Utley and Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory
1/29 - true silence, just as Dreyer intended
1/31 - an original score by composer and pianist Mie Yanashita