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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 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 relentless downward spiral of guiIt, degradation and freedom at any cost.
GIenda Jackson, and Susannah York pIay SoIange and CIaire, Paris maids who tend to crueI socialite Madame's unending domestic needs. Whenever Madame is away, the sisters obsessively act out a compIex roIe-playing psychodrama of domination and control that feeds their powerfuI lust for revenge upon the haughty, disdainful mistress they serve. But after faIseIy denouncing Madame's Iover to the poIice, Solange 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 threshoId of ecstatic reIease.
Director Christopher MiIes and legendary cinematographer DougIas Slocombe focus Genet's heady theatricality into a riveting and dynamic cinematic experience. ln a worId where the Iines drawn between mistress, servant, confession, accusation, degradation, redemption, murder and suicide become as fragile as French lace, the fatal truth remains that, "naturally, maids are guilty when madams are innocent." |
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