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The Maids

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Price:	£13.93	Buy Now Rent
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Format:	DVD

Starring:	Susannah York \| Glenda Jackson \| Vivien Merchant

Director:	Christopher Miles

Languages:	English

No. of Disks:	1

Region:	Region 2

Release Date:	27 September 2004

Availability:	Usually dispatched within a month

One of the most fascinating films in the entire AFT Collection, The Maids is a controversial work by notorious light-fingered novelist-poet-thief Jean Ganet (Querelle). In The Maids, Genet creates a surreal and illusory world, dealing unsentimentally with society's outcasts. The plot is roughly based on the Papin sisters - real life murderous maids from the 1930's.

Glenda Jackson (Woman In Love, A Touch Of Class) is at her sneering finest as Solange, and as Claire, Susannah York (The Killing Of Sister George, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?) exudes dark sexuality and malevolence. Claire and Solange are the twisted sister maids of the title, working for Vivien Merchant's Madame in a chic Parisian townhouse. The maid's play-acting slowly reveals dark desires, skewed sexual and class politics and even worse, dementia and murderous intent.

With fluid cinematography by the great Douglas Slocombe (Julia, Raiders of the Lost Ark), The Maids is a dangerous and provocative look at the darker recesses of the human soul.