L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment)

Buy This Item L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment) by 20th Century Fox  Available from Amazon  $8.99  on 9-19-2008     Seven sexy co-eds. One Spanish apartment. No rules. A single year of learning turns into an outrageous adventure of a lifetime in this "fresh, captivating comedy" (Newsday) that has audiences and critics cheering around the world! Xavier (Romain Duris) is a straight-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful Martine (Audrey Tautou). But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets a hilarious, eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh?and party! Reader Reviews Ah, yes, why can't all our college experiences be this cool? Instead of rooming with a control freak-esque local girl in a run-down flat in a northeastern college town, wouldn't it have been great if I'd lived with a bunch of cool people in Spain? Oh, well. I find it hard to describe what this movie is about, so I'll leave it to others who have no doubt done a fine job of detailing its quirky, thin-yet-rich plot. To say it depicts the inner landscape of a young Frenchman's evolving personality as it concerns itself with interaction among co-habiting European students from all corners of the continent doesn't do it justice or explain much at all. I'll only say I enjoyed the fast-moving L'Auberge Espagnole and would recommend it to anyone interested in seeing a stylish young cast clash and bond under the wide blue skies of Barcelona and amid the scenery of ultra-modern twenty-first-century Europe. Merely by packing seven good-looking multinational young people into a small Spanish apartment you'd have a watchable tale right there, but Cedric Klapisch goes much farther by working in subplots about an adulterous affair, long-distance relationships, ethnic stereotyping, and the debt owed to one's personal past. "European Pudding" has winsome performances, funny moments---Wendy's brother taking a bullet for her by jumping into bed with the half-naked American troubadour was completely hilarious--- and is an intelligent, likable movie! So, Cedric, when can we look forward to seeing part three?

L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment) Available from Amazon Price: $8.99 Updated on 9-19-2008.

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