Murderous Maids

Les blessures assassines

France

2000

93 Min

Color

2.35:1

French

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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PROD Michel Pezin, Laurent Pétin

SCR Jean-Pierre Denis, Michèle Pétin, Paulette Houdyer

CAST Sylvie Testud, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Isabelle Renauld, François Levantal, Dominique Labourier, Jean-Gabriel Nordmann, Marie Donnio

SOUND Jean-Pierre Duret

Berlinale (Panorama), Queer Lisboa (Educação & Cidadania)

Synopsis

More than seventy years on, the case of the Papin sisters, the servants who murdered and mutilated their mistress and her daughter in pre-World War II Le Mans, remains an enigma. Jean-Pierre Denis’s film is the definitive screen version: at once a stunning dramatization of the events leading up to the tragedy, and a compelling interrogation of the class issues that are believed to have contributed to the incident. —The Criterion Collection

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Beneezy

25Jun12

Maid in the Manhattan was bad, but this is worse. Waste of my time!!!

Jerry Johnson

2Mar10

The BBC production Sister My Sister is an infinitely superior telling of the Papin sisters story that avoids the simplified anachronistic politics that motivates this film.