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"I will tell you what struck me the most when in preaparing for this film I read the "minutes" of the trial of Joan of Arc.Her youth.Her magnificent insolence before the cardinals and scholars who where preapared to send her to the pyre.("Go away!" "This isn't your trial,"etc.)Throughout the interminable interrogations- from which she emerges less exhausted than her interrogators-I imagine her lancing her obstinate replies from the high of that second floor sometimes depicted by fifteenth-century painters:the floor designated for spiritual things,as opposed to the ground floor that represents material reality."