L'Auberge Espagnole

Name: L'Auberge Espagnole
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: May 16, 2003
Duration: 122 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Judith Godrèche, Kelly Reilly, Romain Duris

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Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: May 16, 2003 | R

Starring: Audrey Tautou, Judith Godrèche, Kelly Reilly, Romain Duris

Summary: Through cosmopolitan adventures and comic tribulations, Xavier (Roman Duris) finds his own unexpected place in a mixed-up, multi-cultural modern world. [Fox Searchlight]

Director: Cédric Klapisch

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 122 min

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Michael O'Sullivan

In almost every way that I can think of, L'Auberge Espagnole is a perfect movie... It is a film that feels alive. Read full review

Michael Sragow

L’Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Hotel) is unexpectedly entertaining because it captures the point in young adulthood when life is unseriously serious, or maybe seriously unserious. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

Exhilarating comedy...Its warm, embracing spirit is refreshing in these divisive times. Read full review

Ty Burr

The movie also rather sweetly suggests that the apartment being shared is Europe itself. There's a reason this warm, stylish human comedy was a big hit all across the Continent: It conveys a new generation's conviction that borders no longer matter. Read full review

Ella Taylor

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.) Read full review

Liam Lacey

A film whose limitations are the same as its appeal: It's a bauble. Running at barely more than 80 minutes, the film is both a travelogue and a commercial for swinging polyglot Europe. Read full review

Jessica Winter

Cédric Klapisch has been compared to Truffaut, but the new-waver's weakness for glib sentimentalism seems to have left the biggest impression on L'Auberge Espagnole. Read full review

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mapizarro

Nov 27, 2013

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 forCédric 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".… Expand

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AmurabiM.

Aug 7, 2006

Without the annoying visual effects, the lead character in his depressive period (and loser attitude) and the use of bad accents in spanish (looks like the actors learn just the lines who performed, but they are not believable like students in Barcelona in an entire year of learning Without the annoying visual effects, the lead character in his depressive period (and loser attitude) and the use of bad accents in spanish (looks like the actors learn just the lines who performed, but they are not believable like students in Barcelona in an entire year of learning language), "L´Auberge Espagnole" could be a great french comedy without corny approaches. Klapisch´s film looks radiant, vibrant, funny, full of life, splendorous and optimistic. Someone coul be understand the propaganda in it, but the whole sense of the movie prevails over that. This film is not hilarious but has some joie de vivre that is more important and vital.… Expand

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