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«Sólo la violencia del crimen cometido nos da una medida de la atrocidad del crimen invisible, en el que, como se comprenderá, los verdaderos asesinos ‘señalados’ son los amos». ~Simone de Beauvoir
«Nada teníamos contra ellas. Hace demasiado tiempo que somos criadas, eso es todo». ~Christine Papin
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[Francia, 1963] Directed by Nikos Papatakis (as Nico Papatakis) Writing credits (in alphabetical order) Louis Jouvet uncredited Jean Vauthier writer Cast (in credits order) Francine Bergé ... Michelle Colette Bergé ... Marie-Louise Pascale de Boysson ... Elisabeth Lapeyre Colette Régis ... Mme. Lapeyre Paul Bonifas ... Mons. Lapeyre Jean-Louis Le Goff ... Philippe Lise Daubigny ... Buyer Robert Benoît ... Buyer Marcel Roche ... Buyer Produced by Nikos Papatakis .... producer (as Nico Papatakis) Original Music by Pierre Barbaud Cinematography by Jean-Michel Boussaguet Film Editing by Edwige Bernard Denise de Casabianca Pascale Laverrière Makeup Department Marie-Louise Gillet .... makeup artist Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Roger Dallier .... assistant director Sound Department Claude Lerouge .... sound engineer Music Department Constantin Simonovitch .... musical director (as Konstantin Simonovic)
Las hermanas Papin
Juan José Sebreli. Cuadernos.
En 1933, en la ciudad francesa de Le Mans, dos criadas, las hermanas Cristina y Lea Papin, asesinaron a su patrona y a su hija y se ensañaron con el cuerpo. (...) El suceso provocó el interés de los círculos intelectuales, algunos trataron de justificar el crimen por las condiciones inhumanas en que vivían las mujeres, en tanto psicólogos y psiquiatras lo encararon como un problema clínico. Jacques Lacan se ocupó del asunto en un artículo donde analizaba la homosexualidad inconsciente de las hermanas y el comportamiento sadomasoquista, reflexiones que lo llevaron al desarrollo de su teoría sobre la paranoia.
El suceso inspiró la obra de Jean Genet Las criadas (1947) y la película Les Abysses (Los abismos, 1963), de Nikos Papatakis, realizador cercano a los existencialistas. Sartre dijo de ese filme: «El cine nos da su primera tragedia».
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- Nikos Papatakis, the depths of human soul as an anti establishment manifesto
Nikos Papatakis is a controversial director that has been known more for his role as a financer and co-producer of Jean Genet first and solely film Un chant d’amour, and John Cassavetes’ Shadows. (...)
Always involved in politics as an activist; he was pro Algeria liberation, and he also fought for the Greek cause, against the Colonels’ regime. His movies reflects this involvement of course, and they are always like a political manifesto and statement.
Les Abysses
(...) Inspired by the famous case of the Papin sisters, that shocked France in the late 30’s; the movie is also stimulated by Jean Genet’s famous play Les Bonnes.
The case of the two sisters has always been cited in French left wing intellectual circles as a perfect example of the working class struggle. Papatakis makes it clear, the motivation of the sisters, that will lead them to murder, it’s their life condition; the humiliations they had to suffer, exploited in every way by their employers, that are ready to get rid of them, once they don’t need them anymore. It’s the typical situation of the workers everywhere, specially in the early decades of last century, when Communist party and intellectuals were trying to emancipate the workforces, inciting them to fight for their rights. (...)
The movie is truly effective, a sense of hysteria is created by the continuous screams and the discomforting cacophonic score. It gets under the skin of the viewer, crawling slowly, leaving him perplexed and with a strong feel of uneasiness. (...)
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Fernando Trueba, en [url=http://elpais.com/diario/1978/10/13/cultura/277081205_850215.html]1978[/url], escribió:...aquel bluff intelectual del cine francés de principios de los sesenta que fue Los abismos, insoportable bodrio teatral de Nikos Papatakis, en el que algunos santones de la cultura creyeron ver la mayoría de edad del cinematógrafo.
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