Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Joan of Arc (1928)



Pretty mind blowing. In the first half, the titles (taken from real historical transcripts of the trial) tell one story while the faces tell another. The second half is almost purely visual, with wild crowd scenes, upside-down camera angles, and billowing smoke. And yet it never wavers from its austerely economical style of storytelling.

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