Mike McCahill 

The Women on the Sixth Floor – review

A hit in France, this retro clowdpleaser is a victim of its own stodginess, writes Mike McCahill
  
  

The Women on the Sixth Floor.
Complacent ... The Women on the Sixth Floor. Photograph: PR

Consider this the French equivalent of The Help: a retro crowdpleaser just mild and evasive enough to have become a massive hit on home turf. The starchy 1960s household of Fabrice Luchini and Sandrine Kiberlain unravels with the arrival of a new maid: the moderately fiery Spaniard María Gonzalez, played by Natalia Verbeke. Luchini almost rescues it from its own complacency, but the script is equal parts blocked toilets and soft-boiled eggs.

 

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