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The men fought their captors and escaped.
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Shot almost entirely in tight close-up, Falconetti’s Joan is doubly mute: first, of course, because the film itself is silent but, more pointedly, because the sparse script, based on records of Joan’s 1431 trial, puts nearly all the words in the mouths of her captors.
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Dana Stevens, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Miller said the caller, who authorities referred to as Jane Doe to protect her privacy, spoke through whispers, saying she was being held captive at a house near a laundromat and her captor was asleep at her side.
—Natalie Cardenas, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2024
Instead, he’s just locked up in a cage for a couple scenes near a bunch of dogs, with none of his captors willing to offer any answers.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
Her captors – Lukasz and his brother Michal – drove more than 200 miles to a secluded farmhouse where she was tied to furniture and told a series of elaborate lies.
—Irenie Forshaw, The Week Uk, theweek, 13 Aug. 2024
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Dana Stevens, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Miller said the caller, who authorities referred to as Jane Doe to protect her privacy, spoke through whispers, saying she was being held captive at a house near a laundromat and her captor was asleep at her side.
—Natalie Cardenas, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2024
Instead, he’s just locked up in a cage for a couple scenes near a bunch of dogs, with none of his captors willing to offer any answers.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
Her captors – Lukasz and his brother Michal – drove more than 200 miles to a secluded farmhouse where she was tied to furniture and told a series of elaborate lies.
—Irenie Forshaw, The Week Uk, theweek, 13 Aug. 2024
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“Captor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/captor. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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captor
noun
cap·tor
ˈkap-tər 
-ˌtȯ(ə)r
: one that has captured a person or thing
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