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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 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 lives together into a relentIess downward spiral of guilt, degradation and freedom at any cost.
GIenda Jackson, and Susannah York play SoIange and Claire, Paris maids who tend to cruel sociaIite 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 lover to the police, SoIange and Clarie'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 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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