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MIFS film for May: "WOMEN ON THE SIXTH FLOOR"
Date: Sat May 5 - 2012
Time: 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Location: Magnetic Island RSL Hall - Arcadia
DINNER at RSL before film:
Dinner will be available from 7.00pm at the RSL and the Bar will also be open.
Film at 8.00pm May 5th
WOMEN ON THE SIXTH FLOOR
Classification: PG
Duration: 102 mins
Genre: Comedy
Director: Philipe Le Guay
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natalia Verbeke, Carmen Maura, Lola Duerias
Language: French
Country: France
Duration: 102 mins
Genre: Comedy
Director: Philipe Le Guay
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natalia Verbeke, Carmen Maura, Lola Duerias
Language: French
Country: France
In 1960s Paris, a conservative couple's lives are turned upside down by two Spanish maids. (Reviewed by Margaret only … At the Movies).
Fabrice Luchini … has an ability to play contained uptight men who meet their own comeuppance. In this he is a stockbroker, Jean-Louis, who adheres to a rigid schedule of a perfectly cooked egg before he sets off to work. His wife Suzanne (Sandrine Kiberlain) is running up against their maid, a left-over from the regime of his mother who died only a short time ago. In the dust-up the old maid quits which leaves this bourgeois house devoid of anyone to do the real work. Suzanne's friends recommend one of the many Spanish women who are floating around Paris in the early 1960's, refugees from Franco's oppressive regime. No sooner are Jean-Louis' eggs cooked perfectly by Maria (Natalia Verbeke) than he becomes involved in the lives of the serving women who live on the 6th floor in his building, where the plumbing is appalling and all sorts of matters need the intervention of a good-hearted bourgeois, which Jean-Louis becomes, mainly because of the charms of Maria.