The Village Voice, April 23rd, 2002
Sylvie Testud Gets in the Pressure Cooker
Sylvie Testud may well be cinema's successor to Isabelle Huppert, not least because her Cesar-winning performance as Christine Papin in Murderous Maids is the broken-mirror image of Huppert's sadomasochistic martinet in The Piano Teacher-their icebound veneers crack open and they are swallowed up in the depthless black waters beneath. Surfaces can be deceiving, as Testud points out. "Crazy is easy," she says. "Your eyes get big, you turn red, you yell, your tongue comes out. But it's very hard to show nothing."
The saga of the Papin sisters, young se...
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