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All were fascinated by this puzzling real-life story of the murder by two sisters, Léa and Christine, of their employer and her daughter in 1930s Le Mans. Murderous Maids looks at the bond that united the two sisters from early childhood, delving into how and why such a crime came about. An investigation into the crime.
19. Apr. 2002 · Based on the true story of two chambermaids (the Papin sisters) of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter. Christine Papin and Léa Papin are sisters with an already troubled past. Madame Lancelin takes them into her home and employs the girls as maids. Christine sees in Madame Lancelin an ideal mother figure — in spite of her severity. But their wretched background — an ...
Murderous Maids. Class struggle, incest, and murder are at the heart of France's most horrific crime of the 20th century. Director Jean-Pierre Denis paints a provocative portrait of the notorious Papin sisters that is sympathetic yet unapologetic. The sisters, Christine and Lea, are forced into servitude by their self-absorbed mother and become ...
20. März 2002 · Murderous Maids seems burdened by familiarity—forget Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures, this story was unofficially told before by Claude Chabrol in his brilliant La Ceremonie. By focusing attention away from the demands of the bourgeois order and onto Christine’s burgeoning madness, Murderous Maids is conservative to a fault.
19. Apr. 2002 · Philadelphia Inquirer. Director Jean-Pierre Denis doesn't explore psychological motives, which are, finally, unknowable. What he accomplishes in his chilling, unnerving film is a double portrait of two young women whose lives were as claustrophic, suffocating and chilly as the attics to which they were inevitably consigned. Read More.
MURDEROUS MAIDS Les blessures assassines. Directed by. Jean-Pierre Denis. France, 2000. Drama, Crime, LGBTQ+. 93. Synopsis. More than seventy years on, the case of the Papin sisters, the servants who murdered and mutilated their mistress and her daughter ...
22. Feb. 2022 · Murderous Maids definitely cranks the ick factor of the relationship up from Sister, My Sister or The Maids. The characters weren’t related in The Maids. Sister, My Sister had the sisters meet as near strangers once they were already adults. Murderous Maids doesn’t give you such easy outs. It makes sure the audience understands they knew ...
