Joan the Maid () is a 1994 French historical film directed by Jacques Rivette. Chronicling the life of Joan of Arc from the French perspective, it was released in two parts: Joan the Maid, Part 1: The Battles () and Joan the Maid, Part 2: The Prisons ().
Cast Sandrine Bonnaire as Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) Édith Scob as Jeanne de Béthune Tatiana Moukhine as Isabelle Romée Jean-Marie Richier as Durand Laxart (Joan's uncle) Baptiste Roussillon as Baudricourt Jean-Luc Petit as Henri Le Royer Bernadette Giraud as Catherine Le Royer Jean-Claude Jay as Jacques Alain Olivier Cruveiller as Jean de Metz Benjamin Rataud as Bertrand de Poulengy André Marcon as Charles, Dauphin of France Jean-Louis Richard as La Trémoille Marcel Bozonnet as Regnault de Chartres Patrick Le Mauff as Jean Bâtard d'Orléans Didier Sauvegrain as Raoul de Gaucourt Jean-Pierre Lorit as Jean d'Alençon Bruno Wolkowitch as Gilles de Laval Hélène de Fougerolles as Jeanne de Bar
Releases In the original version, Jeanne la pucelle I: Les batailles ran for 160 minutes, and Jeanne la pucelle II: Les prisons for 176 minutes, totalling 336 minutes.
American DVD releases removed significant portions; Joan the Maid: The Battles ran for 110 minutes, and Joan the Maid: The Prisons for 116 minutes, totalling 226 minutes.
A 4K restoration was released in August 2019, with a Blu-ray seeing release in December 2019.
Reception Glenn Kenny calls the film "essential cinema", in which the director (Rivette) "... applies a cinematic style that’s both impassioned and elegantly simple and rational to Joan’s inner and outer life, using long takes and brilliantly considered camera movements throughout."
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