The first installment of Jacques Rivette's ambitious yet restrained two-part study of the life of Joan of Arc surveys the revelatory period where Joan met with royalty, joined the army, and led the French into battle against the English. As Joan, Sandrine Bonnaire gets at the reality behind the legend, showing the matter-of-fact courage of a teenage girl.
IMDb 7,1/1019942 t 40 min 
