The Women on the 6th Floor (2010) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Les femmes du 6ème étageaka
AKA
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Year
2010
Running time
106 min.
Country
France
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Synopsis
Paris in 1960. Jean-Louis and Suzanne Joubert are no longer exactly youthful. This stockbroker and his wife live a quiet, middle-class existence in an elegant tenement building. You might even describe their lives as dull – especially since the children have been packed off to boarding school. Things are a good deal livelier on the sixth floor of their building where all the female staff live. The most recent arrivals are ‘guest workers’ from Spain: six women of different ages from Burgos. Jean-Louis finds himself increasingly drawn into their world – a world that is so different to his own. The main reason for his fascination is Concepción, a mature but still attractive Spanish woman for whom this man, who is somehow greying both outside and in, develops a quiet passion. He also develops a genuine interest in her colleagues, and this sees him popping upstairs to the sixth floor with increasing regularity in order to enjoy the refreshingly different, friendly atmosphere that prevails. But the more he learns about this different world, the more difficult it becomes for him to return to his own marital home.
Awards
2011: Cesar Awards: Best Supporting Actress (Carmen Maura). 3 nominations
2011: Berlin Film Festival: Official Selection (Out of Competition)
Critics' reviews
- "Philippe Le Guay's carefully-tailored crowd-pleaser does have its pleasures, even if originality is not among them."
- "This agreeable French comedy wears its class consciousness on its sleeve but functions primarily as bourgeois light entertainment."
- "There are few reasons you must see this movie, but absolutely none that you should not."
- "Enjoyably satirical and occasionally insightful, it's betrayed by some lazy stereotyping."
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