WHEN MOVIE-MAKING GOES MEDIEVAL
“JOAN OF ARC’S MISSION TO DRIVE THE ENGLISH OUT OF FRANCE WAS FUELLED BY AN ALL-CONSUMING DESIRE FOR REVENGE. THERE WAS ONE PROBLEM – BESSON HAD MADE THE WHOLE THING UP”
1999 viewers of Luc Besson’s The Messenger: The Story Of Joan Of Arc were plunged into a graphic scene where a girl is violently raped and murdered – an horrific sight that shocked many viewers. A terrified Joan watched through cracks in a door as her older sister suffered this terrible fate at the hands of English soldiers. Suddenly all became clear: her mission to drive the English out of
