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The film is based on a true incident in Le Mans, France, in 1933 called the Papin murder case, where two sisters brutally murdered their employer and her daughter. The murder shocked the country, and there was much speculation about the sisters, including allegations that they were having an incestuous lesbian affair.
Sep 22, 1995 · “Sister My Sister”–which is scripted by Wendy Kesselman, based on her stage play, and directed by renowned theater director Nancy Meckler–suggests that the sheer isolation and loneliness of...
Sister My Sister ★★ 1994 (R) True crime story that served as the inspiration for Jean Genet's play “The Maids.” In a French provincial town lives the authoritarian Madame Danzard (Walters), who stifles daughter Isabelle (Thursfield), and subjects her two maids, sisters Christine (Richardson) and Lea (May), to an equally harsh discipline.
By Emanuel Levy. A dramatization of the real story upon which Jean Genet’s play “The Maids” is based, “Sister My Sister” is a small-scale film with some powerful moments.
The true story is of a rich woman who beats her servants until they fight back. The true story casts doubt on the incestuous relationship. But this version of the story leaves out the beatings, reducing it to verbal abuse and threats. This version makes the incest explicit.
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- British Screen Productions, Film4 Productions
- Nancy Meckler
Jun 23, 1995 · The true story behind "Sister My Sister" has intrigued artists for 50 years, and who can blame them? It is an irresistible dark tale of murder, incest and class struggle, an event so bizarre that...
Sep 10, 2012 · A blood-spattered staircase, the glimpse of a corpse's foot: thus we are enticed into the true story of a murder which occurred in Le Mans in 1933. Two sisters (Richardson and May) become maids...
