The Maids (1975) [N/A]
Featuring:
Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant
Written by:
Robert Enders
Jean Genet
Christopher Miles
Directed by:
Christopher Miles
Release Date:
April 21, 1975
Original Title:
The Maids
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Cine Films Inc.
The American Film Theatre
Production Countries:
United Kingdom | United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 95
Sisters. Servants. Sinners.
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.
'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.
