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Vox Humana Chamber Choir presents The Passion of Joan of Arc "You cannot know the history of silent film unless you know the face of Renée Jeanne Falconetti. In a medium without words, where the filmmakers believed that the camera captured the essence of characters through their faces, to see Falconetti in Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc” is to look into eyes that will never leave you." Roger Ebert Ebert reviewed the 1928 film, directed by Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer, for its release in The Criterion Collection, an archive of approximately 1000 movies of significance in film history. More than 90 years after its initial release, "The Passion of Joan of Arc" is still considered one of the most innovative films of its time. Instead of a screenplay based on the events, ... more...