This movie is one of my all time favorite Christian flicks. I'm no movie critic; I just love good stories and look more for content/value than anything else. This movie is incredible, makes me want to reread Dickens's Tale of Two Cities. I prefer this version of Joan of Arc over any others out there. Bernard Shaw's play by itself is a classic. It's a story that left me pondering over the involvement of various churches and governments in war, particularly, in this tale, the Catholic church and English government. The impoverished, over-taxed French peasant class rallied round Joan at the siege of Orleans, her ill-clad compatriots scrambling over walls and ditches to fight the English. Makes me wonder why the church or state sometimes creates the conditions, e.g. oppression and poverty, which lead to war in the first place. It's definitely something to think about this Easter season, not to mention in an election year.

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