rated [PG]
104 minutes
Comedy
A breezy upstairs/downstairs French comedy centering on an uptight couple living in a swanky Parisian apartment in 1962, blissfully unaware that upstairs the building's servants quarters is overflowing with illegal immigrants, all of whom are hot-blooded Spanish country girls... "It's 1962. An uptight middle-class couple - Fabrice Luchini and Sandrine Kiberlain - are barely aware that the servants' quarters on an upper floor of their Paris apartment building are overflowing with refugees from Franco's Spain: the sisters and aunts and mothers and cousins of the legal occupant (Carmen Maura). After they hire one of them, the beautiful, mysterious, quietly challenging Maria, to be their housemaid, they are gradually made aware of their own unintentional insensitivity and are drawn out of their tired routines."
Starring:
Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natalia Verbeke, Carmen Maura
Directed by:
Philippe Le Guay
Reviews:
"Lighter than a meringue and as insubstantial, the French boulevard comedy "The Women on the 6th Floor" was designed for the gentle laughter it easily earns" - New York Times
"This agreeable French comedy wears its class consciousness on its sleeve but functions primarily as bourgeois light entertainment" - Chicago Reader
"The Women on the 6th Floor follows the well-worn story pathway about relationships between bosses and servants, but does so with a sense of genuine joy that mostly makes up for any lack of originality" - Toronto Star
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