The Women on the 6th Floor (2011)
Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 62
Fresh: 41 | Rotten: 21
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Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 8
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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
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Cast
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Fabrice Luchini
Jean-Louis -
Sandrine Kiberlain
Suzanne -
Natalia Verbeke
Maria -
Carmen Maura
Concepcion -
Lola Dueñas
Carmen -
Berta Ojea
Dolores -
Nuria Sole
Teresa -
Concha Galan
Pilar -
Marie-Armelle de Guy
Colette de Bergeret -
Muriel Solvay
Nicole de Grandcourt -
Audrey Fleurot
Bettina de Brossolette -
Anne Mercier
Madame Triboulet -
Michele Gleizer
Germaine -
Camille Gigot
Bertrand -
Jean-Charles Deval
Olivier -
Philippe Duquesne
Gérard, Gérard, G?rard -
Christine Vézinet
Valentine -
Jeupeu
The Plumber -
Vincent Nemeth
Monsieur Armand -
Philippe Du Janerand
Piquer -
Patrick Bonnel
Goimard -
Laurent Claret
Blamond -
Thiery Nenez
Fishmonger -
José Etchelus
Priest -
Jean-Claude Jay
Pelletier -
Joan Massotkleiner
Fernando -
Ivan Martin Salan
Miguel
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All Critics (64) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (21) | DVD (1)
The film sidesteps all complexities and leaves us with a closing shot that should come with a bucket.
Top CriticThe 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.
A sweet yet occasionally heavy-handed comedy about class relations in 1962 Paris...
[It] has drama, comedy, romance and class politics. It also introduces an element of ethnic prejudice to the mix.
This agreeable French comedy wears its class consciousness on its sleeve but functions primarily as bourgeois light entertainment.
"The Women on the 6th Floor" is a pleasant movie, even-tempered, a romantic fantasy.
Beautifully filmed, well acted and a topical reminder that success isn't about how much money you have, but how you live - and boil your eggs.
The unreconstructed nature of the comedy ensures that the jokes and even the shots are awfully familiar.
Let's just say that this is not a film that will endear itself to a female audience.
Several stalwarts of European cinema retread familiar territory in this light-as-a-feather upstairs/downstairs comedy set in 1960s Paris.
Warm-hearted but silly French comedy, set in 1960 and starring the excellent Fabrice Luchini as a stockbroker in the stuffy world of the Parisian haute bourgeoisie.
The socio-economic moral is ladled on like great big dollops of paella.
Around the gentle tale of romance and longing there are some serious comments on class, politics, the legacy of the Spanish Civil War and European life in the era of Mad Men.
Luchini almost rescues it from its own complacency, but the script is equal parts blocked toilets and soft-boiled eggs.
Que pasa? Rien d'importance.
Enjoyable, frequently funny French comedy with likeable characters and a strong central premise, though the script wobbles in the final act and the conclusion fails to convince.
Enjoyably satirical and occasionally insightful, it's betrayed by some lazy stereotyping.
A frothy French fancy with a warm heart at it's core.
What is an occasionally charming upstairs/downstairs comedy is overshadowed by one unintentionally creepy relationship.
This delightful slice-of-life observation on class distinctions will make you feel good inside. Luchini carries the movie as the central character with physical mannerisms that have a comedic bent. Other strengths include...
They romanticize the whole idea of these women. I mean, they're all essentially interchangeable.
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Foreign Titles
- Nur für Personal! (DE)
- The Women on the 6th Floor (Les femmes du 6eme etage) (UK)
