SAT SEPT 10, 2022 10:00 PM THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | Robert Bresson: An American Cinematheque Retrospective 35mm courtesy of the Institut Français. Special thanks to the Film & TV Office, Villa Albertine in Los Angeles. Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILM: Bresson’s sparest and most inexorable film is taken entirely from the official transcripts of the trial of Joan of Arc – whom the director called “the most extraordinary person who ever lived” – and concentrates on her torment and humiliation. Dreyer’s THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC looks almost melodramatic next to TRIAL’s spartan gravity; the parched quality of Bresson’s rendering is indicated in its relative absence of water or fluids. 35mm courtesy of the Institut Français. Special thanks to the Film & TV Office, Villa Albertine in Los Angeles. FORMAT: 35mm DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films