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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-10 06:57 PM
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A French TC case even I'd never heard about: The Papin Sisters
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!
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livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-21-10 11:28 AM
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1. Interesting. I never heard of this one either
Thanks for posting this :hi:.
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gizmonic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 11:53 AM
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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.

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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-10 04:01 PM
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3. Thank you!
Another DUer was kind enuf to get me a star, so I'm back.
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