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Well done biopic of an amazing young woman
Born to a peasant family in northeastern France during the Hundred Years War with England, Joan (Leelee Sobieski) hears the voices of saints instructing her to help the Dauphin Charles (Neil Patrick Harris) claim the French kingship and drive out the Brits. Charles persuades Joan to declare herself the prophesied Maid of Lorraine and inspire an army against the invaders. Peter Strauss plays the skeptical captain, Peter O'Toole a bishop, Powers Boothe her grim father and Shirley MacLaine Madame de Beaurevoir.
While Joan of Arc (1999) was a TV production with the limitations thereof, its quite well done if youre in the mood for a realistic medieval flick. The first two-thirds are great bu...