"Based on true events": the slaying of their employers by two sibling housemaids in provincial France in the 1930s. Jean Genet wrote a play about it. Nico Papatakis made a previous film about it (with actual sisters in the roles of the maids). And now we have a disorientingly English-accented treatment, though still set in France, pallidly photographed in tones of brown, beige, tan, flesh (pale flesh, to be sure). Julie Walters lightens the atmosphere with an unsympathetic caricature of the sniffy, aloof, yet eagle-eyed lady of the house, the soul of the bourgeoisie. With Joely Richardson, Jodhi May, Sophie Thursfield; screenplay (from her own stage play) by Wendy Kesselman; directed by Nancy Meckler. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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