Les blessures assassinés / Murderous Maids (2000) A film by Jean-Pierre Denis.

Incest and Murder, Presented Without the Usual Thesis. The case of Christine and Léa Papin, domestic servants who murdered their employer and her daughter in Le Mans in 1933, was in its day as sensational as the Lindbergh kidnapping case and has fascinated French writers and intellectuals ever since.

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir saw the killing as an act of class warfare; the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan used it to construct a theory of paranoid hysteria; and Jean Genet travestied the case on stage in his play.

  By A. O. Scott. [New York Times: Movies]

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A Cuban Filmmaker Gets His Voice Back. The Cuban director Humberto Solás, an honoree of this year's Havana Film Festival New York, has been able to restart his career thanks to digital video.

  By Mireya Navarro. [New York Times: Movies]

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