The Woman on the 6th Floor

Name: The Woman on the 6th Floor
Genre: Comedy
Released: October 7, 2011
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 52

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: October 7, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis lives a bourgeois existence absorbed in his work, cohabitating peacefully with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne while their children are away at boarding school. The couple’s world is turned upside-down when they hire a Spanish maid Maria. Through Maria, Jean-Louis is introduced to an alternative reality just aParis, 1960. Jean-Louis lives a bourgeois existence absorbed in his work, cohabitating peacefully with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne while their children are away at boarding school. The couple’s world is turned upside-down when they hire a Spanish maid Maria. Through Maria, Jean-Louis is introduced to an alternative reality just a few floors up on the building’s sixth floor, the servants’ quarters. He befriends a group of sassy Spanish maids, refugees of the Franco regime, who teach him there’s more to life than stocks and bonds. The women’s influence on the house brings change… muy rápido! (Strand Releasing)… Expand

Director: Philippe Le Guay

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 104 min

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Kenneth Turan

Oct 6, 2011

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. Read full review

Joe Williams

Nov 6, 2011

The Women on the 6th Floor shouldn't work, but this efficient flick whisks away our cynicism. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Oct 6, 2011

Mr. Luchini has a touching way of opening up the repressed heroes he often plays, and Ms. Verbeke's droll manipulations - and genuine sweetness - are more than enough to justify the transformation that María and the other maids work on Jean-Louis's life. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Oct 7, 2011

Has a few things going for it -- a winning performance by Luchini and a small role by Pedro Almodóvar favorite Carmen Maura. But these talented folks can't compensate for a plot that strains credulity and lacks badly needed social bite. Wait for the DVD. Read full review

Rene Rodriguez

Nov 3, 2011

Still, this is one French comedy that could have used a little more hand wringing and a little less whimsy. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Dec 1, 2011

A coda set in 1965 seals the film's status as a bourgeois fantasy, but fear not: Paris' student and worker riots of 1968 are only a hair's breadth away. Read full review

Ty Burr

Oct 13, 2011

The Women on the 6th Floor is delicate and sensitive and utter bollocks - a bourgeois wet dream made to soothe the souls and stir the loins of powerful men in midlife crisis. But some of us wish we could see this movie told from the maids' point of view. Read full review

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smilzoboboz

Jan 7, 2015

I've read a lot of really harsh reviews on this one, mostly saying that the movie fails to depict the historical frame of '60s Paris but in my opinion they are missing an important thing: this movie feels far more of a comedy rather than drama (you could say french styled comedy) and addingI've read a lot of really harsh reviews on this one, mostly saying that the movie fails to depict the historical frame of '60s Paris but in my opinion they are missing an important thing: this movie feels far more of a comedy rather than drama (you could say french styled comedy) and adding all the sadness that Franco's dictatorship brought to Spain, the hard condition of laborers and so on, would have changed the bitter-sweetness of this movie into disappointing sadness.

That said, the plot is pretty straight forward and totally enjoyable and this movie purposely steers away from any kind of political or ethical judgement about anything.
Again, a very light french styled comedy that claims to be nothing more than that, totally worth watching.… Expand

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