AVIDEOGAL
The following was written in 2000 by the presenter of this channel:
Milla - the real - "Messenger" - (A FILM REVIEW - 2000)
What we have here is a film about motivations. Why do we do the things we do? Since it does actually answer this question and resolves this human dilemma - this fact makes it, not necessarily the best film, but nothing less than the most important film of our time, or of all time for that matter.
I'm not well read enough on Joan's history to know of its accuracy or not, but who cares, that is not the message of "The Messenger". I also don't know anything about the personal life of the writer-director Luc Besson other than he use to be married to Milla Jovovich the star of his film. I don't know ...