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Guardian Unlimited Film | | Maid of honour (1251 words) |
 | But the horrific scene-setting of this Joan of Arc bears the scars of more recent atrocities in the Balkans: her elder sister Catherine acts as a human shield for Joan, and hides her in a cupboard; Catherine is assaulted by an English ruffian, impaled on the cupboard door and her dying body raped. |
| Joan of Arc been a heroine for little girls for generations; many, when they grow up, are still fascinated by her breaking the mould of so many expectations and limits - Madonna wanting to make yet another film is all of a piece with Vita Sackville-West's attraction 63 years ago. |
| It's an equally unrehearsed irony that Joan of Arc was eventually canonised by the same Church that had declared her an apostate and an idolater and a schismatic in the course of a full, legal, inquisition trial. |
| Catholic Culture : Document Library : St. Joan of Arc on the Big Screen (3957 words) |
| Joan was a French national heroine long before she was solemnly rehabilitated by the Church and canonized a saint in 1920. |
| Joan of Arc appears to him and challenges him to sacrifice his life for the defense of France to expiate the sins of the English against her country. |
| Joan's power was in her purity, and it is evident from this film that the paradox of a virgin leading an army of men confounded her interrogators. |
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