Review: The Women on the 6th Floor

En español | Romantic comedies tend to rely heavily on formulaic plots, but in French director Philippe Le Guay's able hands the formula becomes fodder for a delightful comedy of mores and manners. Set in France during the early 1960s, where the seemingly unbridgeable gap of social class looms large, The Women on the 6th Floor tells the story of a group of sassy Spanish maids fleeing the Franco regime and searching for a better life in Paris. The women rent tiny rooms on the top floor of a building owned by stuffy stockbroker Jean-Louis Joubert (played by Fabrice Luchini, last seen by U.S. filmgoers in Portiche (2010), alongside Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu).  … Back to Article