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The Silence of Joan (Jeanne Captive): Cannes Review

5:18 AM PDT 5/14/2011 by Jordan Mintzer

Clemence Poesy never really has a chance to showcase her talents in Philippe Ramos' film, which suffers from shoddy production values and tedious storytelling.

CANNES -- Following Captain Ahab, his contemplative prequel to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, French filmmaker Philippe Ramos sets his sights on another icon of Western culture in The Silence of Joan (Jeanne Captive). But this rather ponderous take on Gaul’s saintly teenage rebel suffers from shoddy production values and tedious storytelling, while Clemence Poesy’s leading turn fails to bring the legend to light.

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