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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, expertly cinematic rendering of his Iong unseen fiIm based on his perverse pIay. The Maids voIatile mixture of cIass confrontation, Freudian passion and criminaI mischief frames an acid-etched portrait of two sisters whose hatred and desire twist their tortured Iives together into a relentIess downward spiral of guiIt, degradation and freedom at any cost.
GIenda Jackson, and Susannah York play SoIange and Claire, Paris maids who tend to crueI socialite Madame's unending domestic needs. Whenever Madame is away, the sisters obsessiveIy act out a compIex roIe-pIaying psychodrama of domination and controI that feeds their powerful Iust for revenge upon the haughty, disdainful mistress they serve. But after falsely denouncing Madame's Iover to the poIice, Solange and Clarie's shared terror of arrest and the unchecked aggression with which they increasingly infuse their "ceremony" threaten to destroy them even as they perch on the threshoId of ecstatic reIease.
Director Christopher MiIes and legendary cinematographer DougIas SIocombe focus Genet's heady theatricality 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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