Laissons les morts engloutir les morts
France, 1431 The trial and final days of Joan of Ark imprisoned in Rouen by the English Crown and tried by a tribunal of French judges and clerics. Faced with the mounting pressure from the English L…
Laissons les morts engloutir les morts
France, 1431 The trial and final days of Joan of Ark imprisoned in Rouen by the English Crown and tried by a tribunal of French judges and clerics. Faced with the mounting pressure from the English Lords and the cunning of some members of his entourage, Bishop Cauchon, must rely solely on himself digging deep within to find the divine spark to light up the proper course of actions to take in order to reconcile both his own truth-aspiring conscience and greed motivated submission to the English power. In vain. Cauchon's soul-searching dries up while the inner beings haunting the labyrinth of his soul seem to wander as aimlessly as he while roaming the corridors of the Rouen fortress. Intent on finding a way out while caught between his inner world and the outside reality, Cauchon wrestles both against and with his own conscious to reach a decision that remains elusive: capital punishment, a prison sentence, what is the proper verdict to be inflicted upon the maid of Orleans? Cauchon ends up obsessed by the idea of saving his own soul rather than sacrifice his petty ambitions of power and prestige for the common good and the sake of true justice. It is the end of the medieval times when power elects to save its own interests by denying the very principles, which have sustained it for centuries. It is the dawn of a new era, which will do away with moral necessities in order to address the contingencies of life - replacing the religious principles by democratic ideals - a new time that will maybe endure the same accursed fate as the one it has replaced.
Laissons les morts engloutir les morts
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France, 1431 The trial and final days of Joan of Ark imprisoned in Rouen by the English Crown and tried by a tribunal of French judges and clerics. Faced with the mounting pressure from the English Lords and the cunning of some members of his entourage, Bishop Cauchon, must rely solely on himself digging deep within to find the divine spark to light up the proper course of actions to take in order to reconcile both his own truth-aspiring conscience and greed motivated submission to the English power. In vain.
Cauchon's soul-searching dries up while the inner beings haunting the labyrinth of his soul seem to wander as aimlessly as he while roaming the corridors of the Rouen fortress. Intent on finding a way out while caught between his inner world and the outside reality, Cauchon wrestles both against and with his own conscious to reach a decision that remains elusive: capital punishment, a prison sentence, what is the proper verdict to be inflicted upon the maid of Orleans? Cauchon ends up obsessed by the idea of saving his own soul rather than sacrifice his petty ambitions of power and prestige for the common good and the sake of true justice. It is the end of the medieval times when power elects to save its own interests by denying the very principles, which have sustained it for centuries.
It is the dawn of a new era, which will do away with moral necessities in order to address the contingencies of life - replacing the religious principles by democratic ideals - a new time that will maybe endure the same accursed fate as the one it has replaced..