Summary:
Based on the same infamous murders that inspired Jean Genet's play +The Maids, and the earlier film Sister My Sister, this French drama explores the difficult family life, professional pressures, and forbidden bond that in 1933 led sisters Christine and Lea Papin to murder the mother and daughter who employed them as maids. Based on Paulette Houdyer's novel -L'affair... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Sylvie Testud - (Christine Papin)
Julie-Marie Parmentier - (Lea Papin)
Isabelle Renauld - (Clemence)
Dominique Labourier - (Mme. Lancelin)
Jean-Gabriel Nordmann - (M. Lancelin)
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Review:
Nancy Meckler's Sister My Sister turned the story of the infamous Papin sisters into a stylized, claustrophobic treatise on the emotional savagery of the domestic sphere. The identical incident inspired Jean Genet to write the play +The Maids, a farcical examination of social hierarchies. This far more realistic treatment of the same ... Continue >>

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