It's hard to complain about a film that combines Paris and the city in the world that is most like it.
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06/11/03
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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
Top CriticFrench writer-director Cédric Klapisch's movies are fun to watch because he's got a gift for achieving a seemingly impossible balance. He can vividly capture the uniqueness of his locales (like Paris or Barcelona) but make his stories appealingly universa
06/08/03
You've seen this before, and you'll see it again, but L'Auberge Espagnole is a pleasant enough way to spend a couple of hours.
06/08/03
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06/08/03
Full though shallow, a swell trip to Barcelona.
06/06/03
Whether you're a frat guy from the '50s or live in a 21st-century coed dorm, L'Auberge Espagnole's celebration of a certain time, a certain place, a certain community is engagingly recognizable.
06/06/03
Top CriticDespite the movie's lack of narrative discipline, it grows on you, in part because it's so easy to identify with these characters.
06/05/03
Top CriticWarm without sentimentality, funny without jokes, rich in character without caricature, it hits that rare spot where we receive intense pleasure at the recognition of truth.
06/05/03
Top CriticImagine an average episode of Friends with subtitles, more sex and less laughs.
06/05/03
"L'Auberge Espagnole" isn't a perfect, or at times very even, film, but it's chock-full of a kind of experimentation and fun rarely found in the slick, polished and ready for the masses fare that the studios usually traffic in
05/30/03
Watch it and you'll long for a much-needed European vacation.
05/30/03
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05/30/03
Cedric Klapisch takes the old cliches of culture clash... and turns them into a vision of the new European Union as communal household.
05/30/03
It's a movie that feels rich in possibility, like the time of life it depicts, and creates a sunniness that lingers long after the credits roll.
05/30/03
Lively but overlong
05/29/03
A love song to the new Europe ... and a snapshot of a polyglot gang on the cusp of kind-of- reckless youth and responsibility- burdened adulthood.
05/29/03
Slight and overly eager to impress with its flourishes, but sufficiently brisk and colorful to prove satisfying nonetheless.
05/28/03
Way closer to being a Real World movie than The Real Cancun was.
05/26/03
Nothing tremendous, but a decent bit of relatively charming and diversionary entertainment.
05/23/03
A buoyant, extremely enjoyable film that coasts along on a quality few movies manage to capture: the exuberant curiosity of youth.
05/23/03
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