
#123movies #fmovies #putlocker #gomovies #solarmovie #soap2day Watch Full Movie Online Free – Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet boring life. At least until, due to fortuitous circumstances, Maria, the charming new maid at the service of Jean-Louis’ family, makes him discover the servants’ quarter on the sixth floor of the luxury building he owns and lives in. There live a crowd of lively Spanish maids who will help Jean-Louis to open to a new civilization and a new approach of life. In their company – and more precisely in the company of beautiful Maria – Jean-Louis will gradually become another man, a better man.
Plot: Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet boring life. At least until, due to fortuitous circumstances, Maria, the charming new maid at the service of Jean-Louis’ family, makes him discover the servants’ quarter on the sixth floor of the luxury building he owns and lives in. There live a crowd of lively Spanish maids who will help Jean-Louis to open to a new civilization and a new approach of life. In their company – and more precisely in the company of beautiful Maria – Jean-Louis will gradually become another man, a better man.
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Highly recommended!
A great movie, with wonderful actress and actor, soft, funny, intelligent and deeper as it seems apparently. If you pay attention the flick will let you think upon many things and, in any case, you will leave the theater in a good and serene mood not only in your mind, but also in your heart. Very refreshing!!! Luchini is excellent (as always) in his wonderful character. He recognize the opportunity to change his life and he seize it on. Today maybe it is hard to imagine that a rich man can show that kind of interest for people of a such different social condition. But in the Sixties sometimes that could happen, the social dehumanization was not so advanced like today, in spite of all the contradictions of those years, which are very well represented. Very good also Kiberlain as his wife. She is perfect in her attitude as snooty new rich. The whole cast of the movie and especially the Spanish women are simply great: they show how a change was urgently requested, at that time… and let us understand, today also!
Too much information? Or just enough?
Another French hit. I always learn something, and get a different perspective on humanity in these foreign films. A group of Spanish housekeepers live on the top floor of an old, elegant apartment building in the 1960’s in Paris. One, a beautiful young woman (Argentine actress Natalia Verbeke) becomes housekeeper to an odd family who owns the building. Cultural, personal, and family discontent ensues. Very engaging story despite unlikely conclusion.Just a curious thought about the 15-20 second nude scene, which is so mesmerizing (for a man, at least) that I spent the rest of the movie trying to catch my breath. This puzzles me. Did it make the movie? Or was it one of these token moments that directors seem obliged to insert. Could it have been easily omitted and the movie would have been just as interesting?
I don’t have an answer for this, but it’s an interesting question. This was a brief glimpse of one of the most beautiful bodies ever to get full rear exposure on a “legitimate” screen. Was it more information than we needed? Or was it an integral part of the story. A little of both, I suspect.
Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 42 min (102 min), 1 hr 44 min (104 min) (France)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Comedy
Director Philippe Le Guay
Writer Philippe Le Guay (scenario and dialogue), Jérôme Tonnerre (scenario and dialogue)
Actors Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natalia Verbeke, Carmen Maura
Country France
Awards 2 wins & 3 nominations.
Production Company Vendôme Production, France 2 Cinéma
Website N/A
Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Red One Camera, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory Laboratoires Éclair, Paris, France
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Redcode RAW
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm, D-Cinema, Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP)