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Murderous Maids
Directed by
Jean-Pierre Denis
2002
1h 34m
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6.8
90%
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6.1
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Follows two chambermaids (the Papin sisters) of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter.
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Cast of Murderous Maids
Julie-Marie Parmentier
Léa Papin
Sylvie Testud
Christine Papin
Isabelle Renauld
Clémence
François Levantal
le Gazé
Dominique Labourier
madame Lancelin
Jean-Gabriel Nordmann
monsieur Lancelin
Marie Donnio
Geneviève Lancelin
Lily Boulogne
Alberta
Jean-Pierre Denis
Director / Writer
Paulette Houdyer
Novel
Michèle Pétin
Writer / Producer
Laurent Pétin
Producer
Bernard Vézat
Production Design
Jean-Marc Fabre
Director Of Photography
Sylvie de Segonzac
Costume Design
Marie-Hélène Dozo
Editor
Jean-Pierre Duret
Sound
Thomas Gauder
Sound
Jeanne Biras
Casting
Murderous Maids Ratings & Reviews
New York Magazine/Vulture
Peter Rainer
Sylvie Testud gives such a ferociously controlled performance that the messy murder seems like a necessary release.
Chicago Reader
Fred Camper
Unfortunately Denis' detached and indifferent camera never gets inside the story, its characters, or its milieu.
AV Club
Keith Phipps
The film studies a world of deeply entrenched class divisions and sexual taboos, and then, with a scream in the night, draws the study to a close, leaving its meaning, like that of the case that inspired it, open to interpretation.
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
Julie-Marie Parmentier and Sylvie Testud are eerily convincing as the intense pair of co-dependents in the rigorous but creepy drama Murderous Maids.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Never inspires more than an interested detachment.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Though far from a feel-good affair, it is never cheap or cynical. Its creepiness is well-earned.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Testud is the burning center of a clinically dispassionate film.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Made with spellbinding clarity and tact, shot near the actual locations by an uncompromising cinema realist, and featuring a near-perfect cast.
L.A. Weekly
Manohla Dargis
An intelligent, moral shocker.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The story makes for an absorbing drama that builds in intensity, heading toward the ultimate outburst with a grim sense of inevitability.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Troubling and powerful.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
As the dominant Christine, Sylvie Testud is icily brilliant.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
What [Denis] 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.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Murderous Maids may well be the most comprehensive of these films and also strike closest to the truth.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Ultimately too repellent to fully endear itself to American art house audiences, but it is notable for its stylistic austerity and forcefulness.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
What Denis ends up with is a delicate psychological portrait in which his grim determination to be restrained and sensitive is the major feature.
Newsday
John Anderson
Denis forges out of the theories of class- based rage and sisterly obsession a razor-sided tuning fork that rings with cultural, sexual and social discord.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
It presents the Papin sisters' lives with ferocious clarity, shedding a painful light on emotions too volatile to be named and on actions that ultimately defy explanation.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Genuinely unnerving.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Ripped of her humanity, Testud's Christine becomes a working stiff of Greek proportions.
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