Cinéclub: Les Femmes du 6ème étage

Alliance Française de Trivandrum will screen ‘Les Femmes du 6ème étage’ (The Women on the 6th Floor ) as part of January Cinéclub on19 January , 5.30pm

@ Alliance Française de Trivandrum.

Les Femmes du 6ème étage directed by Philippe le Guay, is a pleasant movie, even-tempered, a romantic fantasy.

Set in Paris in the 1960s, the film is a social comedy that pits the propriety of a middle class  French family with the earthiness and humour of Spanish cleaning ladies who work in their apartment building. It follows Monsieur Joubert (Fabrice Luchini), an unadventurous stockbroker, as he befriends the Spanish maids who live on the top floor of his building. Maria (Natalia Verbeke), his new maid, introduces him to her compatriots and their simple but happy lives animated by friendship and folklore, in contrast to the relative emotional austerity of his own life. Slowly he recovers his joie de vivre by tasting life’s simple pleasures; when his wife (Sandrine Kiberlain) falsely accuses him of having an affair he moves into an empty room in the servants’ quarters upstairs, the first time he has had a bedroom of his own.