The Maids (1974) on Blu-ray

Actor: Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant, Mark Burns
Director: Christopher Miles
Genre: Drama
Year: 1974
Studio: Kino Classics
Length: 94
Released: 6/19/2018
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc/Special Features: NTSC, 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
Language: English
Subtitles : N/A

DESCRIPTION:

Glenda Jackson (Sunday Bloody Sunday) and Susannah York (The Killing of Sister George) provide a volatile mixture of class confrontation, Freudian passion, and criminal mischief in this unbridled, expertly cinematic rendering of the play by Jean Genet, one of the most creative and provocative minds of the 20th Century. Solange and Claire are Paris maids who tend to the domestic needs of a cruel socialite (Vivien Merchant). Whenever Madame is away, the bonnes obsessively act out complex psychodramas of domination and control that fuel a lust for revenge upon the haughty woman they serve.