LIVING PICTURE #7

The video is an excerpt from Bruno Dumont’s movie «Jeanne», retracing the life of Joan of Arc, portrayed in the film as an innocent, incorruptible and strong child. The scene is the sentencing to death of Joan of Arc.

The music is a song by French singer Christophe.

Here are the lyrics: 

“She’ll go to hell with the damned dead,
With the condemned and the abandoned,
She’ll go to hell with the damned dead;
When the straw in hell flies light,
Your body will fly away for the fire to blaze,
Then begins eternity without edge.

In the mad howls of the embraced alive,
In the mad howls of the flayed alive,
In the mad clamors of the damned panic-stricken,
In the howls of all the tormented.

And the mad howls of eternal suffering,
And the mad howls of eternal prayer,
Will be like a silence in the flood of suffering,
Drowned like a silence in the flood of suffering.

As your eternal death is a living death,
A life untouchable, undefeatable and mad,
And eternity will be like a silence.“