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September 2003 Edition |
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| Film—La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc | |
Renée Maria Falconetti as Jeanne d'Arc |
For those archivally-aware film buffs amongst you, PIPEWORKS (formerly The Dublin International Organ and Choral Festival) in conjunction with the Dublin Fringe Festival will present Carl Theodore Dryer's (1889–1968) silent film La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928) in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin on 23 and 24 September 2003 at 8.30p.m. Dreyer's masterpiece is a portrait of France's warrior-maiden, which uses the original transcripts from her fifteenth-century trial (Dreyer chose not to use a film script). |
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The film's own story mirrors its heroine's: denounced by French and English nationalists, mutilated by cuts and revisions, destroyed by fire (the original negative). Renée Maria Falconetti's performance as Jeanne has been described as "the greatest...ever captured on film". In St Patrick's gothic interior, renowned Swiss organist Guy Bovet, will improvise a live accompaniment using the cathedral's pipe organ to, as Bovet has written, enhance "the emotion of the drama, saying things which the picture cannot express directly." Bovet last performed in Dublin in the same venue in 2002 (described by the Irish Times music critic as "the finest cinema in Ireland") when he improvised the organ accompaniment to Murnau's silent film "Sunrise" (1927).
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further information about the performances, please contact the
Pipeworks' office: Tickets
€15/€12 (conc) available from Dublin Fringe Festival office |
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