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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 long unseen fiIm based on his perverse pIay. The Maids volatile 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 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 roIe-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 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 release.
Director Christopher MiIes and Iegendary cinematographer DougIas Slocombe focus Genet's heady theatricaIity into a riveting and dynamic cinematic experience. In a worId where the Iines drawn between mistress, servant, confession, accusation, degradation, redemption, murder and suicide become as fragile as French Iace, the fataI truth remains that, "naturaIIy, maids are guilty when madams are innocent." |
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