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->''"When slaves love each other, it's not love"''
-->-- '''Solange'''

''The Maids'' is a 1975 British drama film directed by Christopher Miles, based on an [[{{Absurdism}} absurdist]] play of the same title by Creator/JeanGenet, which in turn is [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory very loosely based]] on the case of infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papin_sisters Papin sisters]].

It revolves around the [[TheMasochismTango sado-masochistic hate-love]] relationship of Solange (Creator/GlendaJackson) and Claire (Creator/SusannahYork), two PsychoLesbian sisters serving as [[{{Meido}} maids]]. When their mistress is away, they take turns putting on her clothing and impersonating her while the other still plays a maid in a ritualistic game. Slowly, the urge to kill their beloved and hated mistress becomes stronger and stronger, and their deranged minds weaker and weaker...

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!!This film provides examples of:

* AccidentalMisnaming: The mistress cannot be bothered to remember which is Claire and which is Solange.
%%* BrotherSisterIncest
%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The mistress.
%%* DeathSeeker: Solange
%%* DownerEnding
%%* FrenchMaid: Just look at the title.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The mistress thinks her maids are so sweet and reliable.
%%* LoveMartyr: They take turns.
* NoNameGiven: The maids' mistress is identified only as "Madame".
* PerfectPoison: Death by sleeping pills overdose is not so peaceful really.
%%* PsychoLesbian
%%* TheMasochismTango: The main plot.
* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: The mistress trusts her maids (who frame her lover and plot to poison her) so much that even they themselves feel ashamed.
%%* TooDumbToLive: The mistress.
%%* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: See above.
%%* {{Yandere}}: Pretty much everyone in the movie.
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