Experience Dreyer’s 1928 silent masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc like never before, reimagined with a punishing live metal score by The Silent Light. 

Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy are brought to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent achievements of the silent era. Chronicling the trial of Joan of Arc in the final hours leading up to her execution, Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer depicts her torment with startling immediacy, employing an array of techniques—including expressionistic lighting, interconnected sets, and painfully intimate close-ups— to immerse viewers in her subjective experience. Anchoring Dreyer’s audacious formal experimentation is a legendary performance by Renée Falconetti, whose haunted face channels both the agony and the ecstasy of martyrdom. Thought to have been lost to fire, the film’s original version was miraculously found in perfect condition in 1981 in a Norwegian mental institution, heightening the mythic status of this widely revered masterwork.

“Dreyer’s most universally acclaimed masterpiece remains one of the most staggeringly intense films ever made … [A film] less molded in light than carved in stone: it’s magisterial cinema, and almost unbearably moving.”
—Time Out

“Each frame becomes a canvas for Dreyer’s unflinching portrait of suffering.”
—BBC

“Maria Falconetti’s portrayal of Joan is somehow in a class of its own, outside the realms of acting … It is still often regarded as the single greatest performance in the history of cinema.”
—The Guardian