![]() ![]() ![]() She gives the English a chance to surrender, which they refuse. Desperate, he believes her prophecy.Ĭlad in armor, Joan leads the French army to the besieged city of Orléans. After meeting him and his mother-in-law Yolande of Aragon ( Faye Dunaway) she describes her visions. Several years later at Chinon, the Dauphin and soon to be King of France, Charles VII ( John Malkovich), receives a message from the now-teenager Joan ( Milla Jovovich), asking him to provide an army to lead into battle against the occupying English. Afterward, Joan is taken in by distant relatives. Joan, while hiding, witnesses the brutal murder and rape of her sister. Her sister Catherine tries to protect her by hiding her from the attacking English forces, part of a longstanding rivalry with France. She returns home to find her village burning. However, it received mixed reviews and underperformed at the box office, earning just under $67 million on a $60 million budget.Īs a child, Joan has a violent and supernatural vision. The Messenger was intended to follow up that success and cement Besson's and Jovovich's status in film. Eventually Joan is captured by the English, tried and executed for heresy.īesson's previous film, The Fifth Element, which also starred Jovovich, was a critical and financial success, and had a positive influence on both of their careers. Her success in routing the English allows Charles VII to take the throne. It begins with young Joan as she witnesses the atrocities of the English against her family, and she has visions that inspire her to lead the French in battle against the occupying English. Joan of Arc, the French war heroine and religious martyr of the Hundred Years War. The screenplay was written by Besson and Andrew Birkin, and the original score was composed by Éric Serra. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc) is a 1999 English-language French epic historical drama film directed by Luc Besson and starring Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich, Faye Dunaway and Dustin Hoffman. ![]()
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