aside from Joan being burned at the stake (and they didn't even get THAT right), it is inaccurate when it isn't ignoring key points. For example, Joan was captured at Compiègne on 23 May 1430, 9 months after Charles was crowned. In the mini, she leaves home not to lead her army again (against her will), but to be captured and a martyr. At her trial, the prosecution tried to connect her with some superstitious practices supposed to have been performed round what was popularly known as the "Fairy Tree" (l'Arbre des Dames), but this isn't even mentioned! Instead, in part 2, Joan goes into "Jesus mode," with repeated talk by her and others about meeting her end, as Jesus does in the films about him, to the point where you just want to say "die, already!"
Where did they get the stuff about the relationship between Joan and her father, which is inexplicably resolved just as Joan is about to leave home forever? There was no plan of a last-minute rescue attempt by her soldiers (and her wanna-be boyfriend being allowed to inform her of it is pure hooey!) About her execution: her hair was cut off and she was put in a gown. She walked to the stake holding a crucifix, and she was NOT put to death within minutes after recanting her confession. The film makers couldn't bother to get any of this right. Indeed, the scene of the execution features snow flurries -- in late May!
It also bypasses some really interesting tidbits that would've given viewers both insight into Joan and her relationship with her men. For example, the day after she began her liberation of Orleans was Ascension Day. To celebrate, Joan declared a truce, kicked the prostitutes out of the camp, agreed to the attack planned for the next day, and dictated another letter to the English which promised "a disturbance such as will be eternally remembered" if they didn't go home. None of this is in the mini. It doesn't even bother to mention that Joan was cleared of all charges at a retrying 25 years after her death.
Because of the sloppiness and the dopey, like-a-broken-record script, I give it *** out of 10 stars.
Where did they get the stuff about the relationship between Joan and her father, which is inexplicably resolved just as Joan is about to leave home forever? There was no plan of a last-minute rescue attempt by her soldiers (and her wanna-be boyfriend being allowed to inform her of it is pure hooey!) About her execution: her hair was cut off and she was put in a gown. She walked to the stake holding a crucifix, and she was NOT put to death within minutes after recanting her confession. The film makers couldn't bother to get any of this right. Indeed, the scene of the execution features snow flurries -- in late May!
It also bypasses some really interesting tidbits that would've given viewers both insight into Joan and her relationship with her men. For example, the day after she began her liberation of Orleans was Ascension Day. To celebrate, Joan declared a truce, kicked the prostitutes out of the camp, agreed to the attack planned for the next day, and dictated another letter to the English which promised "a disturbance such as will be eternally remembered" if they didn't go home. None of this is in the mini. It doesn't even bother to mention that Joan was cleared of all charges at a retrying 25 years after her death.
Because of the sloppiness and the dopey, like-a-broken-record script, I give it *** out of 10 stars.