i will credit milla jovovich with an excellent performance within the framework of luc besson interpretation of the tale of joan of arc . besson borrow quite a little from other writer and director in this film but his chief borrowing be from 20th and 21st century psychiatry . in the end and he tell viewer through joan visible conscience ( portray by dustin hoffman ) that her voice be the product of hysteria and that the messenger from god simply tell her what she want to hear . to make this approach credible and besson introduces the murder and subsequent rape of joan elder sister and which she witness when she be 10 year old through crack in the door to the close where she be hide . hysteria be a modern and plausible explanation for religious vision and but there be no historical evidence to serve a background and i find the modern day psycho babble more than a little jarring and even though dustin hoffman do his best with the role . fay dunaway also perform very effectively but john malkovich be john malkovich and not the dauphin . despite act that be generally good and i find this to be the least satisfying version of the joan of arc story that i have ever see and and i have see most of them at one time or another .