A French TC case even I'd never heard about: The Papin Sisters

[XanaDUer]

http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-04-16/film/codes-unknown/1

Sober, nuanced, and concise, Murderous Maids takes a brisk walk through one of the creepiest crimes of the 20th century—a murder that fascinated French intellectuals from André Breton through Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Genet to Claude Chabrol. One winter evening in the provincial town of Le Mans, two irreproachable household domestics, Christine Papin and her younger sister, Léa, inexplicably butchered Madame Lancelin, their employer of seven years, along with her daughter, Geneviève. It was not murder, Janet Flanner reported for the readers of Vanity Fairin 1933, "but a revolution."


I've just reserved this on Netflix, and am looking forward to seeing it!

[livetohike]

1. Interesting. I never heard of this one either

Thanks for posting this :hi:.

[gizmonic]

2. Another one for your Netflix queue too: Sister, My Sister

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_My_Sister

Another movie adaptation of the Papin sisters.

[XanaDUer]

3. Thank you!

Another DUer was kind enuf to get me a star, so I'm back.