Alliance Française de Delhi Learn French, Delf-Dalf Exam, Indo-French Cultural Events
Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/05/2015
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
M. L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance française de Delhi
Categories
Alliance Française de Delhi – Ciné-Club
presents
Les femmes du sixièmes étage
Thursday, 7th May 2015, 6:30pm
L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance française de Delhi
Initial release: February 16, 2011
Director: Philippe Le Guay
Running time: 106 minutes
French with English Subs.
ENGLISH
Set in Paris in the 1960s, the film is a social comedy that pits the propriety of a well-to-do French family with the earthiness and humour of Spanish cleaning ladies who work in their apartment building. It follows Monsieur Joubert (Fabrice Luchini), an unadventurous stockbroker, as he befriends the Spanish maids who live on the top floor of his building. Maria (Natalia Verbeke), his new maid, introduces him to her compatriots and their simple but happy lives animated by friendship and folklore, in contrast to the relative emotional austerity of his own life. Slowly he recovers his joie de vivre by tasting life’s simple pleasures; when his wife (Sandrine Kiberlain) falsely accuses him of having an affair he moves into an empty room in the servants’ quarters upstairs, the first time he has had a bedroom of his own.
FRENCH
Paris, années 60. Jean-Louis Joubert, agent de change rigoureux et père de famille « coincé », découvre qu’une joyeuse cohorte de bonnes espagnoles vit… au sixième étage de son immeuble bourgeois. Maria, la jeune femme qui travaille sous son toit, lui fait découvrir un univers exubérant et folklorique à l’opposé des manières et de l’austérité de son milieu. Touché par ces femmes pleines de vie, il se laisse aller et goûte avec émotion aux plaisirs simples pour la première fois. Mais peut-on vraiment changer de vie à 45 ans ?
AWARDS
César 2012 de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle pour Carmen Maura
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppH4MBsVTKU