Philippe Le Guay
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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.
…making even The Help’s glib depiction of African-American servitude seem nearly honest. Although both films are meant to be sympathetic toward the underclass, they’re told from the viewpoint of the ruling class, making them both, in the end, movies about the latter. But where The Help’s Skeeter crossed thick and prickly racial boundaries in order to score a winning story about the lives of “the help” for the betterment of her career…
In any case, the pleasing film is not so pat or condescending in its stereotypes as The Women on the 6th Floor, last year?s…
If you’re not sure about The Women on the 6th Floor, here’s a question that may help you make up your mind: Did you enjoy Potiche, François Ozon’s 2010 comedy about a trophy wife who proves there’s more to her than what is demanded by her societal role? There’s no Catherine Deneuve in The Women on the 6th Floor, and it’s set about 15 years earlier, but if you could overlook the political incorrectness to enjoy the craftsmanship and harmless comedy of Potiche, you’ll probably have a good time at The Women on the 6th Floor, as well.
Fabrice Luchini "Intimate Strangers," "Potiche"…
After playing memorably against type as a boorish factory owner in Potiche, Luchini reverts to more familiar form as a sheltered Parisian grand bourgeois…
Luchini, who played the condescending patriarch in Potiche, is very experienced at this sort of thing.