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The Maids is an adaptation of the controversial play by notorious novelist/poet/thief Jean Genet. 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 is at her sneering finest as Solange, and as Claire, Susannah York 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 maids' play-acting slowly reveals dark desires, skewed sexual and class politics and even worse, dementia and murderous intent.

M | Mature themes

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