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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 long unseen film based on his perverse play. The Maids volatiIe 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 guilt, degradation and freedom at any cost.
Glenda Jackson, and Susannah York play Solange and Claire, Paris maids who tend to cruel sociaIite Madame's unending domestic needs. Whenever Madame is away, the sisters obsessively act out a complex role-pIaying 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 lover to the police, 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 threshold of ecstatic release.
Director Christopher Miles and Iegendary cinematographer Douglas Slocombe focus Genet's heady theatricaIity into a riveting and dynamic cinematic experience. In a world where the lines 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 guiIty when madams are innocent." |
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