The Women on the 6th Floor (2011)
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66% of critics liked it
(62 reviews) -
66% of users liked it
(1,666 ratings)
Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis (Fabrice Luchini, Potiche) lives a bourgeois existence absorbed in his work, cohabitating peacefully with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne (Sandrine Kiberlain, Mademoiselle Chambon) while their children are away at boarding school. The couple's world is turned… More Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis (Fabrice Luchini, Potiche) lives a bourgeois existence absorbed in his work, cohabitating peacefully with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne (Sandrine Kiberlain, Mademoiselle Chambon) while their children are away at boarding school. The couple's world is turned upside-down when they hire a Spanish maid Maria (Natalia Verbeke). 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 (Carmen Maura, Lola Duenas, Berta Ojea, Nuria Sole, Concha Calan), 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! Official Selection of Berlinale. -- (C) Strand
- Directed By
- Philippe Le Guay
- Written By
- Philippe Le Guay, Jerome Tonnerre
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Oct 7, 2011 Limited
- Studio
- Strand Releasing
Critic Reviews
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Dave Calhoun, Time Out
The film sidesteps all complexities and leaves us with a closing shot that should come with a bucket.
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Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
The film doesn't blaze adventurous new trails, but it dramatizes the stories of those underappreciated servants with an engaging mix of romance, droll humor and upstairs-downstairs social consciousness.
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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
A sweet yet occasionally heavy-handed comedy about class relations in 1962 Paris...
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Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
[It] has drama, comedy, romance and class politics. It also introduces an element of ethnic prejudice to the mix.
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J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
This agreeable French comedy wears its class consciousness on its sleeve but functions primarily as bourgeois light entertainment.
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Cast
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Fabrice Luchini
as Jean-Louis
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Sandrine Kiberlain
as Suzanne
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Natalia Verbeke
as Maria
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Carmen Maura
as Concepcion
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Lola Dueñas
as Carmen
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Berta Ojea
as Dolores
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Nuria Sole
as Teresa
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Concha Galan
as Pilar
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Marie-Armelle de Guy
as Colette de Bergeret
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Muriel Solvay
as Nicole de Grandcourt
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Audrey Fleurot
as Bettina de Brossolette
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Anne Mercier
as Madame Triboulet
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Michele Gleizer
as Germaine
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Camille Gigot
as Bertrand
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Jean-Charles Deval
as Olivier
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Philippe Duquesne
as Gérard, Gérard, Grard
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Christine Vézinet
as Valentine
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Jeupeu
as The Plumber
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Vincent Nemeth
as Monsieur Armand
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Philippe Du Janerand
as Piquer
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Patrick Bonnel
as Goimard
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Laurent Claret
as Blamond
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Thiery Nenez
as Fishmonger
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José Etchelus
as Priest
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Jean-Claude Jay
as Pelletier
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Joan Massotkleiner
as Fernando
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Ivan Martin Salan
as Miguel



