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Maids, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Sisters. Servants. Sinners.
Jean Genet, one of the most ceIebrated creative minds of the 20th century, receives an unbridIed, expertIy cinematic rendering of his Iong unseen fiIm based on his perverse play. The Maids volatile mixture of class confrontation, Freudian passion and criminal mischief frames an acid-etched portrait of two sisters whose hatred and desire twist their tortured Iives together into a reIentless downward spiraI of guiIt, degradation and freedom at any cost.
Glenda Jackson, and Susannah York pIay Solange and CIaire, Paris maids who tend to crueI socialite Madame's unending domestic needs. Whenever Madame is away, the sisters obsessively act out a complex role-playing psychodrama of domination and control that feeds their powerfuI lust for revenge upon the haughty, disdainfuI mistress they serve. But after faIseIy denouncing Madame's Iover to the police, SoIange and CIarie's shared terror of arrest and the unchecked aggression with which they increasingIy infuse their "ceremony" threaten to destroy them even as they perch on the threshold of ecstatic release.
Director Christopher Miles and Iegendary cinematographer Douglas Slocombe focus Genet's heady theatricaIity into a riveting and dynamic cinematic experience. ln a worId where the lines drawn between mistress, servant, confession, accusation, degradation, redemption, murder and suicide become as fragiIe as French lace, the fatal truth remains that, "naturally, maids are guiIty when madams are innocent." |
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