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Anchoring Dreyer’s audacious formal experimentation is a legendary performance by Renée Falconetti, whose haunted face channels both the agony and the ecstasy of martyrdom. Criterion Collection Edition #62 Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent masterpieces of the silent era.
10. Dez. 2021 · Interview from 1995 with actress Renée Falconetti’s daughter and biographer, Hélène Falconetti.Renée is known for her role as Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dre...
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You cannot know the history of silent film unless you know the face of Renee Maria Falconetti.In a medium without words, where the filmmakers believed that the camera captured the essence of characters through their faces, to see Falconetti in Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928) is to look into eyes that will never leave you.
Falconetti appears in one Dreyer film, playing the title role in "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928). French actress of Corsican-Italian ancestry, born in Pantin outside Paris, 21 July 1892 – 12 December 1946. Growing up poor, Falconetti was schooled by nuns who did not much encourage her acting ambitions. Her fortunes improved when she met a ...
24. Aug. 2021 · Renée Jeanne Falconetti gives a momentous portrayal as “Joan of Arc”. As the camera uncompromisingly lingers on her huge expressive eyes, Falconetti’s vulnerability and emotional truth make “Joan” deeply human. Her agony, suffering, tiny moments of hope, joy, tension, and conflict, all produce an intimate epic driven by the changing subtleties on her face. It is a startling ...
Maria Falconetti. Actress: The Passion of Joan of Arc. Renée Jeanne or Maria Falconetti, born in Pantin (not in Sermano, Corsica, as many film dictionaries wrongly attest) on July 21, 1892 and died in Buenos Aires on December 12, 1946, is a French actress of theater and cinema. Joining the troupe of the Odeon theater in 1916, she made her debut in "l'Arlésienne", and played the heroines of ...
9. Nov. 2010 · Transcendence Incarnate: Renée Maria Falconetti. by Niti Parthasarathy November 9, 2010. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce to you yet another one of Atlas Obscura’s all-star ...
