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THE SPANISH APARTMENT
L'auberge espagnole
Synopsis
Young French student Xavier leaves behind his long-term girlfriend and sets off for Barcelona as part of the Erasmus student exchange programme. He settles into a large apartment with seven other European exchange students and learns to know them and himself far better than he might have expected.
Synopsis
Young French student Xavier leaves behind his long-term girlfriend and sets off for Barcelona as part of the Erasmus student exchange programme. He settles into a large apartment with seven other European exchange students and learns to know them and himself far better than he might have expected.
Our take
An emblem of the Erasmus programme for a whole generation of students, Cédric Klapisch’s transnational, whimsical crowd-pleaser opens his trilogy on European identity. This now-cult comedy on the beauty of cultural difference and the confusion of early adulthood stars Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou.