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Flames of Nitrate

What happened to Dreyer's Joan of Arc? "Flames of Nitrate" tells the story of Renée Falconetti (1892-1946), the French actress who played the main role in the mythical silent film "The Passion of Joan of Arc" by Carl Dreyer. From his bright years of glory as a theatrical star in 1920s Paris to his dark last days in 1940s Buenos Aires, the documentary emphasizes the collaboration between Falconetti and Dreyer during the filming of Joan of Arc and how this performance, his only film appearance, impacted Falconetti's life to such an extent that it overshadowed everything he did, sooner or later. Starting from the few traces that remain of Falconetti's life, the film seeks to take a look at the woman and the actress, both inseparable, and to explore the complex mechanisms that operated on the path between an uncompromising artistic intransigence and her almost voluntary self destruction. In parallel, the film shows the course of Dreyer's film, censored, mutilated, burned and lost for years, until the hazardous appearance of an original negative in a Norwegian asylum in the 1980s. 


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Documentaries Biography, Culture Neutral Spanish 2015 01:05:00 HD Via DICE

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