The Passion of Joan of Arc

Basing his script primarily on the records of Joan's trial, but condensing events so that the film covers only the final day of her life, with his last silent film Dreyer created a masterpiece at once highly experimental and utterly accessible. Indeed, what Tom Milne memorably called 'virtually a symphony of faces' remains extraordinarily moving; for all the dazzling camerawork, inventive editing and monumental sets, what dominates is Falconetti's performance, a flawless study of suffering, supplication and solitude.

With live piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne on Mon 5 Mar and Costas Fotopoulos on Wed 14 Mar.