Description: THE MAIDS (BLU-RAY)Directed by : Christopher MilesCast : Vivien Merchant, Susannah York, Glenda JacksonCrew : Douglas SlocombeAvailable Date : 05/29/2018Release Year : 1975Running Time : 94UPC : 738329229689Country : U.S.Language: EnglishSubject : Performing Arts, LiteratureGenre : Theatre Jean Genet, one of the most celebrated creative minds of the 20th century, receives an unbridled, expertly cinematic rendering in this long unseen film based on his perverse play. The Maids' volatile mixture of class confrontation, Freudian passion and criminal mischief frames an acid-etched portrait of two sisters whose hatred and desire twist their tortured lives together into a relentless downward spiral of guilt, degradation, and freedom at any cost.Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class) and Susannah York (A Man For All Seasons) play Solange and Claire, Paris maids who tend to cruel socialite Madame's (Vivien Merchant) unending domestic needs. Whenever Madame is away, the sisters obsessively act out a complex role-playing psychodrama of domination and control that feeds their powerful lust for revenge upon the haughty, disdainful mistress they serve. But after falsely denouncing Madame's lover to the police, Solange and Claire's shared terror of arrest and the unchecked aggression with which they increasingly infuse their "ceremony" threaten to destroy them even as they perch on the threshold of ecstatic release.Director Christopher Miles (A Time For Loving) and legendary cinematographer Douglas Slocombe (Julia, Raiders of the Lost Ark) focus Genet's heady theatricallity into a riveting and dynamic cinematic experience. In a world where the lines are drawn between mistress, servant, confession, accusation, degradation, redemption, murder, and suicide become as fragile as French lace, the fatal truth remains that, "naturally, maids are guilty when madams are innocent."Product Extras :Interview with director Christopher Miles (29 min.) | Interview with Edie Landau | “Ely Landau: In Front of the Camera,” a promotional film for the American Film Theatre | Gallery of trailers for the American Film Theatre
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Type: Movie
Region Code: Blu-ray: A (Americas, Southeast Asia...)
Release Year: 2018
Video Format: NTSC
Case Type: Blu-ray Case
Actor: Glenda Jackson
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Movie/TV Title: The Maids
Producer: Debra Martin Chase, Gaylyn Fraiche, Matias Alvarez, Robert Enders
Director: Christopher Miles
Language: English
Run Time: 94 min.
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Rating: PG
Format: Blu-ray
Genre: Drama
Studio: Kino Classics
