L'Auberge espagnole (2002)

Directed by

Cédric Klapisch

Genre

drama film, comedy film, romantic comedy, romance film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

France, Spain

Runtime

2h 01m

Rated

6

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 1,232 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A French economics student moves to Barcelona for a year. He shares an apartment with students from across Europe and deals with different languages and cultures.

lightheartedchaoticaffectionatebittersweetwarmmundaneobservational

What happens

L'Auberge espagnole (French: [lobɛʁʒ ɛspaɲɔl], lit. 'The Spanish Inn'), also known as Pot Luck (United Kingdom) and The Spanish Apartment (Australia), is a 2002 romantic comedy-drama film directed and written by Cédric Klapisch. It is a co-production between France and Spain. In the film, an economics graduate student from France, Xavier, spends a year in Barcelona to study. His fellow Erasmus students are from all over western Europe and have a flatshare. They each speak different languages and have different cultural standards. The film is told in the first person by Xavier. The dialogue is mostly in French, with some English and much Spanish, a little Catalan, Danish, German and Italian. It is the first instalment in the "Spanish Apartment" trilogy, which continues in the sequels Russian Dolls (2005) and Chinese Puzzle (2013). A television series sequel to the trilogy, Greek Salad, was released in 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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