Les abysses

Greek iconoclast Nico Papatakis' debut is inspired by the true story of the Papin sisters- the pair of live-in maids who, after a long time (the film tells three years!) of working without payment turned on their employers and brutally murdered them. The events of its trial…

Arijit

The Papin sisters were live-in maids who turned on their abusive employers in an unusually brutal and extremely well-publicized case in France in 1933. Their attack awoke perpetually simmering class fears of servants turning upon the aristocracy, and their cause was taken…

Rock Hyrax

This is rather refreshing. Lots of great looks, marvelous usage of the set/space, and a lot of chaotic energy. Certain actions remind me of Daisies, just without the color. The torment leads to a predictable denouement, but it’s in no way disappointing. Nico Papatakis…

Yarjka

Yesterday, I watched REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE … and today, this one.  Tomorrow, I desperately need to watch something “normal.”     Imagine SPIDER BABY written by Samuel Beckett and Directed by Luis Bunuel, and you’ll have a fair idea of what awaits you in LES ABYSSES.…

Jim Dooley

Between Genet and Chabrol, Papatakis takes on the infamous 1933 case of the murderous Papin sisters, as only an angry enfant terrible can; from its disorienting opening moments, a generally assaultive aesthetic and emotional experience, class warfare as an unhinged theater…

jrhovind

A magnificent and strange film in which reason descends into madness, paradise into the depths of hell, and where love is painted with the colours of hate. -Simone de Beauvoir on Les AbyssesBased upon the Papin sisters; an actual crime that shocked the public and was…

ALEX KARA

What a sweet firecracker this is. The most difficult thing to digest about it is also maybe the best thing about it. After the opening credits, you are thrust into a ten minute scene with sisters Michèle (Francine Bergé) and Marie-Louise (Colette Bergé) talking, fighting,…

Kai White

The Papin sisters were servants who brutally murdered their employer’s wife and daughter in 1933. The shocking details - including eye-gouging and mutilation that was estimated to take at least two hours to complete - shocked the French people, and for some the case became…

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κρέπες και τερμίτες Πώς μια γαλλική ταινία μοιάζει γυρισμένη στην ελληνική επαρχία αλά Μπουνιουέλ. Κατάλληλη ταινία για να δεις την Πρωτομαγιά.

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