Through maria jean louis is introduced to an alternative reality just a few floors up on the building s sixth floor the servants quarters.
The women on the 6th floor ending.
In 1960s paris a conservative couple s lives are turned upside down by a group of spanish maids that live in the same building.
Here a gentle comedy of manners and romance emerges.
He befriends a group of sassy spanish maids refugees of the franco regime who teach him there s more to life than stocks and bonds.
The women s influence on the house brings change muy rápido.
It works because fabrice luchini makes a sympathetic hero sandrine kiberlain makes a bewildered wife natalia verbeke as maria is warm and friendly and the maids as a group believe in solidarity forever.
He hires a new maid a young beautiful spanish woman and through the friendship he develops with her he meets the spanish maids who live on the 6th floor.
After a fight with his wife he moves into a tiny room on the 6th floor and as a consequence he becomes the erstwhile defender and protector of the women he now lives with.
So cue lively spanish and portugeuse women and a head of one family who wrongly gets accused of having an affair and is banished to the 6th floor.
Directed by philippe le guay.
With fabrice luchini sandrine kiberlain natalia verbeke carmen maura.