Not the first, but the most clinical, screen account of the ultimate case of épater les bourgeois: two servants (sisters and lesbian lovers) who slaughtered two of their employers in 1930s France. Unadorned (no-frills production, no music), unsensationalized, unflinching, and still unilluminating. Frighteningly intense performance, however, by Sylvie Testud as the older and loonier. With Julie-Marie Parmentier, Isabelle Renauld, Dominique Labourier; directed by Jean-Pierre Denis. (2000) — Duncan Shepherd
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