With an enigmatic protagonist, a story based on cruel real events and an innovative staging, Dreyer's film is considered one of the greatest classics in the history of cinema. [Full review in Spanish].

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 21, 2025

Dreyer delivers a timeless treatise on the agony of the soul that bristles against the confines of its structure, a film so carefully constructed yet completely raw in its delivery.

| Sep 9, 2024

The Passion of Joan of Arc is one film among probably less than a dozen of which it can be said that it adds deeply to the sum of one’s experience.

| Jan 18, 2024

Carl Theodore Dreyer's seminal film stands the test of time for its exploration of universal and historical themes, and groundbreaking filmmaking work. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2023

The film makes for an intimately unsettling watch, as Dreyer's style of shooting (harsh angles to go along with all those up-close-and-personal visages) traps the viewer as much as the players.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 31, 2021

I was really impressed by the camerawork in the film.

| Mar 29, 2021

With Einhorn's accompaniment, these pieces lift and spin heavenward on the voices of the choir. I've never seen or felt anything quite like it.

| Jan 6, 2021

Director Carl Dreyer establishes himself as a master of the camera, and uncovers a directorial treatment that is entirely original and unique.

| Jul 24, 2020

The composition of the pictures is extremely beautiful, and the deliberation of the movement allows time for their beauty, and the poignancy of Mlle. Falconetti's acting, to produce a cumulative effect.

| Jul 9, 2020

The showing of close-ups is used as a means of unfolding the tale, which depicts the last six hours of Joan's life, her trial and death. The lack of story and essential support leaves most of the work to Mlle. Falconetti, and she handles it admirably.

| Jun 8, 2020

The Passion of Joan of Arc is nothing without that face. Falconetti's features are both youthful and weathered; her expressions are tortured but joyous. It's a spectacular performance.

| May 28, 2020

The camera is like a microscope, peering into the souls of the legions of men circling around Joan like a pack of hyenas, trying to break down her soul and force a confession.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2020

La Passion d'Jeanne d'Arc, though static and experimental, has some of the most beautiful close-ups in the history of cinema, and ranks high for emotional quality.

| Apr 21, 2020

The consummate work of cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 6, 2020

[Jeanne d'Arc] is an historical film, but not a costume film; an historical film that is contemporaneous in its universal references. [It] is a religious film, but not a sanctimonious film. Life, it urges, is transcendent. It is a transcendent film.

| Mar 26, 2020

[The Passion of Joan of Arc] is a film that has caused me more unrest, more spiritual forebodings, more intellectual rackings, more emotional torment than any I have yet seen.

| Sep 12, 2019

Mannered and arty -- how many close-ups of the same mood is too many? No, not a great film. But a good one.

| Jul 16, 2019

If ever the divine was captured on film, Dreyer did so in his transcendent 1928 masterpiece.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 8, 2019

What more can be said about its style, its acting, its editing, its impact on the industry, its influence on cinematic art?

| Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 29, 2018

a pinnacle of silent film art, expressive acting, and naturalistic intensity

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 26, 2018