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The Women on the 6th Floor

The Women on the 6th Floor

Comedy · 2011

Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet boring life. At least until, due to fortuitous circumstances, Maria, the charming new maid at the service of Jean-Louis' family, makes him discover the servants' quarter on the sixth floor of the luxury building he owns and lives in. There live a crowd of lively Spanish maids who will help Jean-Louis to open to a new civilization and a new approach of life. In their company - and more precisely in the company of beautiful Maria - Jean-Louis will gradually become another man, a better man.

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The Women on the 6th Floor

“Help is on the way.”

2011 Comedy 1h 46m

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TMDB

6.8 / 10

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Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet boring life. At least until, due to fortuitous circumstances, Maria, the charming new maid at the service of Jean-Louis' family, makes him discover the servants' quarter on the sixth floor of the luxury building he owns and lives in. There live a crowd of lively Spanish maids who will help Jean-Louis to open to a new civilization and a new approach of life. In their company - and more precisely in the company of beautiful Maria - Jean-Louis will gradually become another man, a better man.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Philippe Le Guay

Written by

Philippe Le Guay · Jérôme Tonnerre

Fabrice Luchini

Fabrice Luchini

Jean-Louis Joubert

Sandrine Kiberlain

Sandrine Kiberlain

Suzanne Joubert

Natalia Verbeke

Natalia Verbeke

Maria

Carmen Maura

Carmen Maura

Concepcion

Lola Dueñas

Lola Dueñas

Carmen

Berta Ojea

Berta Ojea

Dolores

Concha Galán

Concha Galán

Pilar

Court is in session

Put The Women on the 6th Floor on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.