
Pleasant comedy fresh and light, refined, well-written, especially outside of the box that Women, 6 th Floor . The film cleverly confronts the Parisian bourgeoisie tight ass 60s to his English maids who, after deserting the Franco dictatorship, rediscovered a form of modern slavery which they will eventually overcome. There, where most movies perform a vertical ascent from the popular class to raise the bourgeoisie, Philippe Le Guay , the director, takes on him the perfect foot-cons. He chose to bring his protagonist Jean-Louis Joubert (Fabrice Luchini ) to experience the same conditions as used in Spain. Staying in an attic, too, 6 th floor of its building, it certainly stands physically but symbolically to a reflection on the nature of social positions and the meaning of his own life, the reality of already acquired no longer has any flavor.
Jean-Louis Joubert is a stockbroker in the regular life like a pendulum, relishing his hard-boiled egg perfectly cooked breakfast, whose dull life has stifled the ambitions of a generous life. He is married to Suzanne (Sandrine Kiberlain ), his wife brainless figurehead constantly exhausted from doing nothing. On the death of his stepmother, the latter fired the maid of all work that was part of the furniture and dust to engage Maria (Natalia Verbeke ), a young maid English freshly landed. This, then, very fashionable. The rigid Jean-Louis Joubert will obviously fall under the spell of this proud beauty (it is easily understood as English actress from Argentina is steeped in sensuality). But where good numbers of scenarios would have yielded to the sirens classic boss who wants his employee and to submit its position as the recent The Housemaid , and thereby feed the river of images and sequences telephoned , Women of 6 th floor surprises again ... Here is the boss, obviously motivated by a sexual purpose, and it's pretty honest and intelligent as the present, will gradually integrate the world of maids pushing irony to move into one of the attic next to them. Maria lives in the company of six English friends and aunt Concepcion (Carmen Maura excellent - Free Zone, Volver, Tetro ), in small rooms good on the top floor of the building where they all work as housemaids. It is a microcosm there and swimming only survives in a good mood chosen by the director. The class struggle is less savage than in films such as Gosford Park of Robert Altman even if it is defended by one of the actresses. In wishing Maria Joubert will discover a universe of which he will feel closer and he will be keen to protect. Nothing will ever tell us if it's not pure altruism or self-interest and that is where is the intelligence of the particular film.
slight caricature is tasty, the humor of a rare delicacy emphasized by writing always fair, staging original without being really successful in that it provides actors the space needed for express their talent and apart from a few anecdotal roles, such as the co-worker, most of secondary roles are great. We discover a sense of family in this 6 th floor and evoking pathos with ease and without the difficulties encountered by expatriate women, Philippe Le Guay tribute to them and opens horizons for those who still doubt that expatriation is not a choice but a necessity and it also responds to a request and always arrange that a lot of people including those who criticize. The conclusion most fictionalized film will delight lovers of cakes and cocktails without alcohol, with a promise conclusion without a hangover.