145 - The Passion of Jean of Arc
This was composed immediately after watching a 1928 silent movie with the same name by Carl Theodore Dryer in back in 2022.
The movie is amazing in ways almost too numerous to detail.
For starters it's the ONLY movie Renee Jeanne Falconetti ever acted in and her performance is haunting.
The movie is full of closeups with little background, primarily white so you never really get a good idea of the layout of the room where it’s all taking place.
Though it was filmed in 1928, it doesn’t look dated. It could easily be mistaken for a contemporary experimental film.
As if that wasn’t enough, the original cut of the film was lost and believed destroyed in a fire, until in 1981 a janitor found three cans containing the entire uncut film in a closet at the Dikemark mental institution. Why they had a complete copy nobody knows.
