Luc Besson directs his then-wife, Milla Jovovich, in an overblown historical romp about France's national heroine, driving the ghastly and godless English off the sacred soil, with John Malkovich as a camp heir to the throne, Faye Dunaway as his wickedstepmother and Dustin Hoffman as the Grand Inquisitor.
True story: members of a test audience in America wrote on their reports, "Why does she have to die at the end?"
