Sister My Sister Movie Review 1994

True crime story that served as the inspiration for Jean Genet's play "The Maids." In a French provincial town lives the authoritarian Madame Danzard (Walters), who stifles daughter Isabelle (Thursfield), and subjects her two maids, sisters Christine (Richardson) and Lea (May), to an equally harsh discipline. The tension between the four women reaches a highstrung crescendo, leading to violence. Claustrophobic character study.

Distribution

A-PIX Entertainment Inc., 200 Madison Ave., 24th Fl., New York, NY 10016, Phone: (206)284-4700, Fax: (206)286-4433

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 89 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

True Crime, France, Brothers & Sisters, The Help: Female

Screenplay

Wendy Kesselman

Cast

Julie Walters, Joely Richardson, Jodhi May, Sophie Thursfield

Cinematography

Ashley Rowe

Director

Nancy Meckler

Music

Stephen Warbeck

Producer

Norma Heyman, Film Four International, British Screen