SummaryThrough cosmopolitan adventures and comic tribulations, Xavier (Roman Duris) finds his own unexpected place in a mixed-up, multi-cultural modern world. [Fox Searchlight]
Directed By:Cédric Klapisch
Written By:Cédric Klapisch
L'Auberge Espagnole
Metascore
Generally Favorable
65
User score
Generally Favorable
7.2
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
71% Positive
22 Reviews
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19% Mixed
6 Reviews
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90
It's an exhilarating, funny, very sweet movie.
83
This community finds its balance with an easy effortlessness.
75
A lighthearted, good-natured motion picture that contains enough humor to leaven the tone and keep the drama from becoming too serious.
75
It energetically captures the frenzied pace of contemporary existence, the complexities of life in a multicultural world, the rootless joys of living in a foreign city and the heady world of possibilities one envisions while in college.
70
The characters are well-observed and mercifully unrepresentative of their home countries. (Kevin Bishop is laugh-out-loud funny as a clueless British visitor who shows up to offend more than one national sensibility.)
50
Beware of movies whose creators boast of the little effort involved. Little reward is what you're likely to get.
30
Klapisch wants his characters shiny bright, and winds up making them excruciatingly dull in the process. Watching L'Auberge Espagnole is like seeing the young Maoist revolutionaries of Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 "La Chinoise" body-snatched by the international touring company of "Up With People."
User score
Generally Favorable
80% Positive
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10% Mixed
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2 Ratings
2 Ratings
Nov 27, 2013
9
Cédric Klapisch starts his trilogy "Spanish Apartment" is good. Romain Duris reminds me to Adèle Exarchopoulos in "Blue Is the Warmest Colour". Duris hesitates about his life, his future. I think that Klapisch has made very good with Spanish reality in Barcelona (Catalan struggles for example). It's true too lives of Erasmus students. French film is fresh and good beginning (next "Russian Dolls" and coming soon "Chinese Puzzle".
Production Company:
- Bac Films
- Ce Qui Me Meut Motion Pictures
- France 2 Cinéma
- Mate Films
- Mate Producciones S.A.
- StudioCanal
- Vía Digital
Release Date:May 16, 2003
Duration:2 h 2 m
Rating:R
Tagline:They came from Paris, Rome, London and Berlin to... l'Auberge Espagnole ...where a year can change a lifetime.
Awards
César Awards, France
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Sydney Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Lumiere Awards, France
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
