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The maids

Lenda Jackson and Susannah York play two Parisian maids plotting to murder their mistress. Director Christopher Miles (A Time For Loving) and legendary cinematographer Douglas Slocombe focus Genet's heady theatrically into a riveting and dynamic cinematic experience. Special Features include: interviews; American Film theatre trailer gallery; the Aft Cinebill for the Maids; stills gallery; poster; article - "Jean Genet and The Maids" by Michael Feingold, Chieft Theatre Critic, The Village Voice.

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  • "Jean Genet's the maids"@en
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  • "Lenda Jackson and Susannah York play two Parisian maids plotting to murder their mistress. Director Christopher Miles (A Time For Loving) and legendary cinematographer Douglas Slocombe focus Genet's heady theatrically into a riveting and dynamic cinematic experience. Special Features include: interviews; American Film theatre trailer gallery; the Aft Cinebill for the Maids; stills gallery; poster; article - "Jean Genet and The Maids" by Michael Feingold, Chieft Theatre Critic, The Village Voice."@en
  • "Two Parisian sisters, Solange and Claire, serve as maids to a cruel socialite, but whenever she leaves, the two act out a bizarre, complex role-playing psychodrama of domination and control that feeds their powerful lust for revenge upon the mistress they serve."
  • "Based on the play by Jean Genet 'The Maids' tells of two maids, Solange and Claire, who hate their employers. Whilst they are out they dress up as Madame and insult her."@en
  • "Two Parisian sisters, Solange and Claire, serve as maids to a cruel socialite, but whenever she leaves, the two act out a bizarre, complex role-playing psychodrama of domination and control that feeds their powerful lust for revenge upon the mistress they serve."@en
  • "A film version of Genet's play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and insulting her."@en
  • "Claire and Solange are the twisted sister maids, working for Merchant's madame in a chic Parisan townhouse."
  • "Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and insulting her."
  • "Two sisters, Solange and Claire, serve as maids to a despised mistress. Whenever the mistress leaves, the sisters act out an increasingly bizarre psychodrama of domination and control that feeds their lust for revenge."
  • "Two maids use their free time to enact a masquerade of the relationship between themselves and "Madame," their employer. A logical, yet tragic conclusion results from the interplay between illusion and reality."
  • ""The Maids" was one of Jean Genet's most outstanding plays representing the avant-garde of French playwriting when it was written in 1946. On the surface the film is about two maids of a wealthy Parisian woman, who resentful of their servitude dream of their escape and their revenge on Madame. But with wonderful high rhetoric where Genet turns evil into a sort of religious ecstasy, both the maids and their mistress are shown to be caught up in whirligigs of false illusions and inaccessible desires, which ultimately end in tragedy."
  • "Play about two sisters who have a love/hate relationship with each other and with Madame, who represents the society that has rejected them. Outwardly submissive, the sisters plot rebellion through an erotic, malevolent game of make-believe. From the Video playhouse series."@en

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