The Best Movie Of Each Year From 1925-2025

98. 1928 - The Passion Of Joan Of Arc

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc
Société Générale des Films

Honourable Mentions: The Circus, The Last Command, The Man Who Laughs

A bolt from the blue, Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc is one of the greatest silent films ever produced and one of the greatest films full-stop. A retelling of the trial of Joan of Arc, Dreyer's film is a monument to monochromatic beauty, a dazzling array of imagery that lingers on the breadth and depth of human feeling and the awesome nature of our history, all of which is captured in the face of Renée Jeanne Falconetti.

 
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