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Joseph Delteil (20 April 1894 – 16 April 1978) was a 20th-century French writer and poet. Biography [ edit ] The inscription on the house of Joseph Delteil in Pieusse reads: LA - BAS PRES DE LIMOUX.
Joseph Delteil est un écrivain et poète français né le 20 avril 1894 à Villar-en-Val dans l'Aude et mort le 12 avril 1978 à Grabels dans l'Hérault. Biographie [ modifier | modifier le code ] Joseph Delteil naît dans la ferme de La Pradeille, d’un père bûcheron-charbonnier et d’une mère « buissonnière ».
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Joseph Delteil (21 March 1909 – 7 November 1979) was a French speleologist. Delteil trained as a carpenter before turning to speleology. In 1935, he participated in the exploration of the Labouiche underground river
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After having led the French in numerous battles against the English during the Hundred Years' War, Joan of Arc is captured near Compiegne and eventually brought to Rouen to stand trial for heresyby French clergymen loyal to the English. On 30 May 1431, Joan is interrogated by the French clerical court. Her judges, who are on the side of the Burgund...
Background
After the success of Master of the House in Denmark, Dreyer was invited to make a film in France by the Société Gėnėrale des Films, and proposed a film about Marie Antoinette, Catherine de Medici or Joan of Arc. He claimed that the final decision on the film's subject was determined by drawing matches. Joan of Arc was in the news after World War I, having been canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church in 1920 and named one of the patron saints of France. Dreyer spent over a year and a...
Casting
Joan of Arc was Renée Jeanne Falconetti's second and last film role.Although she always preferred the theater to cinema and said she never understood the positive reaction to her acting, Falconetti's performance achieved iconic status almost immediately. Dreyer had gone to see Falconetti backstage at a performance of Victor Margueritte's La Garçonne, a comedic play in which she was appearing. He was initially unimpressed, but upon seeing her a second time the day after, Dreyer said he "felt t...
Cinematography
The camerawork of The Passion of Joan of Arc was highly unconventional in its radical emphasis on the actors' facial features. Dreyer shot much of the film in close-up, stating "There were questions, there were answers- very short, very crisp...Each question, each answer, quite naturally called for a close-up...In addition, the result of the close-ups was that the spectator was as shocked as Joan was, receiving the questions, tortured by them." Dreyer also did not allow his actors to wear mak...
The Passion of Joan of Arc debuted on 21 April 1928 at the Palads Teatret cinema in Copenhagen. After a few private screenings, it finally premiered in Paris on 25 October 1928 at the Cinema Marivaux. The film's release was delayed due to the persistent efforts of many French nationalists – who objected to the fact that Dreyer was neither Catholic ...
Contemporary reviews
On its initial release, the film was a critical success and immediately called a masterpiece. However, it was a financial flop and caused the Société Générale to cancel its contract with Dreyer after the failure of this film and of Abel Gance's Napoléon. Dreyer angrily accused the Société Générale of mutilating the film so as to avoid offending Catholic viewers and sued them for breach of contract. The lawsuit went on until the fall of 1931, during which time Dreyer was unable to make another...
Later evaluations
The film and Falconetti's performance have continued to be praised by critics. Pauline Kael wrote that Falconetti's portrayal "may be the finest performance ever recorded on film." Roger Ebert praised the film and said that "You cannot know the history of silent film unless you know the face of Renée Maria Falconetti." Jean Sémolué called it "a film of confrontation" and Paul Schrader has praised "the architecture of Joan's world, which literally conspires against her; like the faces of her i...
Scenes from the film appear in Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa Vie (1962), in which the protagonist Nana sees the film at a cinema and identifies with Joan. In Henry & June, Henry Miller is shown watching the last scenes of the film and in voice-over narrates a letter to Anaïs Nin comparing her to Joan and himself to the "mad monk" character played by A...
The Passion of Joan of Arc at IMDbThe Passion of Joan of Arc at AllMovieThe Passion of Joan of Arc at the TCM Movie DatabaseThe Passion of Joan of Arc is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive- Léo Pouget, Victor Alix
- Joseph Delteil, Carl Theodor Dreyer
During one month in 1927 Joseph Delteil collaborated with Carl Dreyer in. the preparation of a screenplay for The Passion of Joan of Arc. The two artists were of different aesthetic and personal temperaments. Delteil, a slight wiry. man with a huge moustache, a vivid hybrid of eccentric surrealist poet and. French Midi peasant, remembers Dreyer ...
Joseph Delteil (* 20. April 1894 in Villar-en-Val; † 16. April 1978 in Grabels) war ein französischer Dichter. Er lebte die meiste Zeit ein seinen Ursprüngen entsprechendes bäuerliches Leben in Südfrankreich und nur in den 1920er Jahren in Paris, wo er in Surrealisten -Kreisen verkehrte und seinen literarischen Durchbruch hatte.
