Renée Jeanne Falconetti

The project was funded by the some kind of French cultural association, I think.

And the lead actress, Renée-Jeanne Falconetti, is also is French.

And she's known mostly as a stage actress.

And this is, I think, her only film role.

Also, if you could play with some of the kind of elements of Jones visionary experiences as well.

As I said, essentially, I'm thinking about this as in part a kind of remake.

But if I were to talk about casting for it, I would say, in some ways, the kind of biggest change I would make other than the fact that I assume a remake made now would have sound would be that I would really like to see a younger actress cast as Joan, because while I think Falconetti was absolutely excellent, I do think that there would be a kind of additional pathos to some extent added by the having somebody who really could kind of play up Joan's youth.

Yes.

It's one of my top three movies of the year.

And it's definitely it's a performance that brings to mind the passion of Joan of Arc and Maria Falconetti in the sense that it's so much of it is on her face.

And there is such a range of emotions that she plays so subtly.

And, you know, it's a lot about being persecuted.

And I thought she had a great face, you know, not just physically beautiful, which she is, but a haunted quality almost, like a silent film actress.

I mean, I've talked about this, but she reminded me of Falconetti from the Dreyer film.

Very able to convey depth of emotion without dialogue specifically.

So I wrote the movie for her and for Joaquin.

Last matchup here.

is a big one maria falconetti for jonah bark and natalie portman for black swan i mean it's it's falconetti right

yeah all right let's move on

yeah let's go you guys have all seen black swan you know how good it is yeah nothing against black swan but no go watch jonah go watch jonah bark

But yeah, and I love him in that role.

I could I could watch him forever.

And then my number one, you know, truly Maria Falconetti as Joan of Arc, because I just kind of think, you know, that's the performance of of film like where I don't know if anything can ever surpass it as just like this is, you know, just.

um the performance i don't know how else to explain it but it's so magnificent um yeah yeah so that's why