Murderous Maids
“It wasn't just a crime. It was a crime of passion.”
6.1(37)20001h 34m
Drama
Based on the true story of two chambermaids of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter.
Director
Jean-Pierre Denis
Cast
Reviews
1 reviewM
merenabe
10y ago
Just as the mystery of Jack the Ripper continues to grip the English imagination, the case of the Papin sisters of Le Mans — two maids who, in 1933, brutally slaughtered their employer and her daughter — holds a peculiar sway over the French. Jean Genet used the ghastly events as the basis for his celebrated one-act play "The Maids," while the cream of France's intelligentsia, from Jean-Paul Sartr...
