The Spanish Apartment (2003)
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Reviews Counted: 87 Fresh: 68 Rotten:19 Average Rating: 6.6/10
Rated: R
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Synopsis:
A fresh comedy from the new Europe, L'AUBERGE ESPAGNOLE is the story of a young man who, through cosmopolitan adventures and comic tribulations, finds his own unexpected place in a mixed-up, multi-cultural modern world. Bursting with energy, optimism and cinematic invention, the film was... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Judith Godreche, Kelly Reilly
Director: Cedric Klapisch
Screenwriter: Cedric Klapisch
Producer: Bruno Levy
Composer: Louis de Francesco
Screenwriter: Cedric Klapisch
Producer: Bruno Levy
Composer: Louis de Francesco
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Reviews
The rare film that makes you not only wish you could crawl inside it, indeed live it, but that such a thing might have been possible even for ugly Americans like me if only I'd taken my junior year abroad.
06/21/07 10:29 AM
[Its] cheery characters are ultimately stuck wending their way through wackily contrived scenarios fit for a sitcom.
04/24/06 09:23 PM
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02/09/06 03:16 AM
L'auberge espagnole or The Spanish apartment is a lovable, cozy mess just like its architectural setting.
03/25/05 09:22 AM
...not a difficult movie to criticize, [but] a hard movie not to like.
01/29/05 06:11 AM
Marx remarked that all great historical events happen twice — first as tragedy, then as farce. If he’d seen [this film]...he might have concluded tragedy recurs as reality TV.
09/23/04 08:13 AM
European Union navel-gazing plus braying youth worship equals L' Auberge Espagnol.
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09/01/04 05:44 PM
There isn't enough story or character development to make this into the breathtaking escapade Klapisch seems to have aspired to.
05/21/04 12:43 PM
The episodic L’auberge Espangnole is like a younger and European version of Friends.
04/19/04 05:00 PM
Não funciona apenas como retrato da globalização e do choque de culturas, mas também como a jornada pessoal de um jovem rumo à definição de sua vida
11/01/03 08:39 PM
Yet another example of writer/director Klapisch's way of finding fresh new insights within the most mundane of circumstances.
10/17/03 06:11 PM
Top Critic Klapisch has imbued the film with such energy and such insight that his themes linger on the palate, like the aftertaste of a fine French or Spanish or Italian or German or whatever wine.
10/17/03 06:03 PM
A film whose limitations are the same as its appeal: It's a bauble.
10/17/03 05:59 PM
Top Critic Since for most of us, it's too late to pack a suitcase, spend a year in beautiful Barcelona, and fall so easily in and out of love, "L'Auberge Espagnole" is a lovely cinematic diversion.
10/16/03 06:00 AM
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08/30/03 08:09 AM
Crams a whole season of Real World fights, flings, cover-ups and send-off parties into one bloated pastry of a film.
07/30/03 02:05 PM
Even when I was in grad school, I'd have found this film excruciatingly long, juvenile, self-indulgent and implausible.
07/25/03 06:28 PM
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