Crams a whole season of Real World fights, flings, cover-ups and send-off parties into one bloated pastry of a film.
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07/30/03
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The Spanish Apartment (2003)
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Reviews Counted:88
Fresh:67
Rotten:21
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: This multicultural comedy captures the chaos and excitement of being young.
Theatrical Release:May 16, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $3,752,818
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,... [More]
Starring: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Judith Godreche, Kelly Reilly
Director: Cedric Klapisch
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Reviews for The Spanish Apartment
Even when I was in grad school, I'd have found this film excruciatingly long, juvenile, self-indulgent and implausible.
07/25/03
It's apt to leave American viewers with a depressing sense of cultural inferiority when these characters are weighed against the classless, clueless, horny drunks that populate our own equivalents of Klapisch's film.
07/16/03
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07/02/03
Think of L'Auberge Espagnole, a French comedy-drama about a gang of international exchange students living together in Barcelona, as Friends -- the International Edition.
06/27/03
We watch these young people as they experiment, grow and learn, and when the movie finally ends after two hours, we're sorry to leave them behind.
06/27/03
There are potentially interesting characters that go underdeveloped and even more potentially fascinating ideas that are given short shrift.
06/27/03
Xavier, the movie's center, is unfortunately one of the less interesting people in L'Auberge Espagnole, but the lovable chaos that swirls about him makes up for that.
06/27/03
Does start off slowly and is consistently hobbled by Duris' bland performance and the equally bland character he portrays, but eventually it settles into a pleasing rhythm and mood.
06/26/03
It features four of the most erotically and emotionally delectable female performances I have seen in one film this year.
06/26/03
Top CriticUn cuadro honesto e imaginativo sobre las expectativas juveniles, los amores imposibles, los enredos del crecer, el descubrimiento de otros mundos.
06/25/03
Writer/director Cédric Klapisch plays the youthful-exuberance card for all it's worth, often coming up with a winning hand.
06/20/03
Much of the charm of this film is in its understanding of the great fluidity of romantic relationships -- especially before people decide to settle down.
06/20/03
I party heartier than these generically attractive twentysomethings.
06/20/03
I was waiting for some massive disaster to strike, for lessons to be learned, & for some sort of change or closure to develop. Damn French filmmakers.
06/18/03
All in all, Klapisch's style approximates the excitement of the French New Wave of the late 1950s.
06/13/03
As he did in When the Cat's Away, Klapisch demonstrates an understanding for the way young people caught between the demands of adulthood and their lingering adolescence behave.
06/13/03
You know how some people try to cram 48 hours into a 24-hour day? Well, those people now have a movie to call their own.
06/11/03
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