A breezy upstairs/downstairs French comedy centering on an uptight couple living in a swanky Parisian apartment in 1962, blissfully unaware...
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." (Source: NZ International Film Festival 2011)
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67 %1,917 reviewsAudience score rating
"Light on bite but heavy on laughs."
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Variety
Variety"Lighter than a meringue and as insubstantial... was designed for the gentle laughter it easily earns."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"A pleasant movie, even-tempered, a romantic fantasy."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"The French have a knack for it. They've been making funny and agreeable movie farces for forever, and seeing "The Women on the 6th Floor" makes you hope they'll never stop."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"I like films that reveal themselves gradually, instead of following an instantly predictable pattern. That's one reason I was so taken with Philippe Le Guay's The Women on the 6th Floor."
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IndieWire
IndieWire"Never digs deeper than its broad generalizations about being poor but happy vs. rich but soulless."
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A.V. Club
A.V. ClubThe Women on the 6th Floor | Details
- Runtime
- 106
- Genre
- Comedy
- Country of origin
- French
