The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc 4K 1999 Ultra HD 2160p

At the age of 13, she heard a divine voice from above and led a crusade in the name of good. While her peers played with dolls, Joan of Arc, an innocent angel with a bloody sword, played with the fates of entire nations. But stars that shine too brightly are doomed to burn out before the others.

User Review

Sorry if this sounds unpleasant. This is the most important film in my life. Second place goes to Amélie, for comparison.

I am not a film critic, but I consider this film to be the most brilliant, powerful, and topical of the tens of thousands I have seen (even Soviet ones). Every six months, I organize a retrospective viewing, either alone or with friends, and spend that time frozen and breathless.

The directing is stunning, the script is truly apocryphal, and the acting is so good that you forget everything else in the world. But the most important thing about this film is the theme it tackles so seriously. Is there another film like this? Why did the film fail? Is it uninteresting? Is Joan not like the real one? And what was the real one like? Why do critics never miss an opportunity to criticize it?

I know the answer. It's not about the quality of the production, but about the theme. The film is not about Jeanne, not about France, but about religion, the madness it breeds, the fragility of faith and its symbols. The cross at the beginning is like fate, and at the end, like a curse. Like death for the motherland that tried you all your life. Throughout the entire film, there is only one truly believing priest who, despite witnessing the true miracle of the renewal of Clovis's magical oil, brought back a second time by a dove almost identical to the first, is the only one who understands that the king is not the real one. (Can there be a true anointed one of God in the absence of God?) .

The problem with the film is that it appeared at a time when humanity was regressing into medieval obscurantism. I have dozens of religious friends, and not one of them liked the film, which is not surprising. For example, after watching it, one of them concluded: “The film is nonsense—Jesus was not ugly. He was handsome.” What can I say? The film is not for him, but about him.

And I disagree with critics who say that the film falls apart, that Jeanne was not schizophrenic, that they were there and saw everything themselves, that everything was not so. And I don't believe they could have made it better. And one more thing. I don't know if the authors are atheists, but personally, I perceive “The Messenger” as the most important atheistic film of my life. And for that, I bow low to the authors. Thank you.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (54.1 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Info Audio

#English: Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 16-bit)
#English: Dolby Digital 5.1
#French: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 16-bit)
#Italian: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
#Spanish: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
#Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
#Hungarian: Dolby Digital 5.1
#Polish: Dolby Digital 5.1
#Russian: Dolby Digital 5.1

Info Subtitles

English SDH, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French (Parisian), German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Romanian, Spanish (Castilian), Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Thai, Turkish.