The Women on the 6th Floor | Film review

In this breezy romantic farce set in 1960s Paris, a successful stockbroker (Fabrice Luchini) whose marriage has gone stale finds more than his political consciousness raised when he falls for his new maid (Natalia Verbeke), one of several Spanish political refugees who room at the top of his apartment building. Luchini endearingly bounces between decisive and clueless, but even Pedro Almodóvar mainstays Carmen Maura and Lola Dueñas can’t elevate the glib screenplay by director Philippe Le Guay and My Best Friend’s Jérôme Tonnerre.