The Trial of Joan of Arc

The shortest work of Bresson is, in more than a few ways, an interesting microcosm. There abounds an abstract borrowing of narrative and stylistic markers; the episodic dissolves that form an integral part of Pickpocket and Diary of a Country Priest, the unflinching resolve of Fontaine from a Man Escaped and that of Mouchette, and perhaps even the saint-like portrayal of […]