![]() From there, she moves on to meeting Dunois, Bastard of Orleans (a standout Charlie Howard), some spectacular military victories, a trial for heresy, and…well, we won't spoil it for those who have never heard of Joan of Arc. ![]() Despite meeting with a good deal of mockery at the court of the Dauphin, whom Olson plays as a comic figure, another childish man juxtaposed to Joan, she gets what she wants from him as well, helped, no doubt, by his enormous debts and disinclination towards soldiering. She may not necessarily persuade Robert that the voices which she hears are indeed divine, but she does convince him to send her on to the Dauphin (Evan Olson) accompanied by gentleman-at-arms Bertrand de Poulengy (Malcolm Jackson) and her requested military accouterments. When the seventeen (or so) year-old Joan (Billie Andersson) is granted her audience, the poised assurance with which Andersson invests her makes Eve's adult Robert seem bratty in comparison. The latter blames a curse linked to the "girl from Lorraine," also known as "The Maid," who has been trying unsuccessfully to meet with Robert and who wishes to be a soldier. ![]() Saint Joan begins in 1429 with an argument between Captain Robert de Baudricourt (George Eve) and his steward (Davide di Cagno-Hagen) over a lack of eggs. ![]()
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