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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543095965
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 23, 2003
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 4979
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Description:
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!
Amazon.com:
An absolute delight, L'Auberge Espagnole captures a moment in a life, seemingly about nothing and everything all at once. Xavier (Romain Duris), a young Parisian not sure what his life is about, decides to spend a year in Barcelona studying economics--leaving behind his unhappy girlfriend (Audrey Tautou, Amélie) but joining an international mix of students in a hectic, crowded apartment. Arguing and partying with his British, German, Danish, and Italian roommates--not to mention getting lessons in love from a Belgian lesbian (Cecile De France) so that he can seduce a friend's wife (Judith Godreche, Ridicule)--Xavier learns more about life than economics. The movie, beautifully shot on digital video, has a freshness and spontaneity that make its simple events--a series of arguments and flirtations--feel like a miniature portrait of the European Union as it comes into focus (the title can be translated as 'Euro pudding'). Vibrant, charming, and all-around entertaining. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Charming film of youth comes of age...
.. or should I say young adult matures his attitude about what is important in life. I really liked this movie. If Amelie is a 99 and Tall Blond Man is a 98 then I give this a 97, almost perfect. Film buffs will see where the director has used things he learned from others but nothing is distracting and it's a great little story.
Rating: - Much Better Than Expected
If you don't like Audrey Tautou, don't worry. Her role is minor.
Take some university students from all over Europe, throw them into an apartment in Spain, and wind up with a far more accurate and observant movie than I had any right to expect. Funny, clever, witty, and unexpectedly character-driven with a plot that works. I'm pleased.
Rating: - Spanish Living
L'Auberge espagnole-- totally what happens when you are studying (esp. Erasmus) abroad. Love, disappointment, parties, even the Catalan mentality is accurately depicted. A cute and frivolous movie! Note: Only in French or Spanish (audio) with English subtitles. A good way to brush up on your French or Castillano!
Rating: - Fresh, stimulating and original
Good idea, good direction, good cast, lots of fun, brings up real life issues and leaves you fulfilled.
For those of you not familiar with Romain Duris yet, I also recommend seeing The Beat that My Heart Skipped. I think he has what it takes, and is one of the best actors today.
Rating:  - Pass on the pudding...
A French film set in Barcelona, Spain; sounds beautifully intoxicating, right? That's that I thought but sadly I was sorely mistaken.
`L'Auberge Espagnole' (`The Spanish Apartment' / `Euro Pudding' depending on how you want to translate it) has the makings of an intricately woven coming of age story but it manages to be nothing more than a boring and tepid waste of time. I remember when the opening credits for the film began to run and I thought to myself that this looked to be an extremely steamy sitcom, and I was put off a bit because I wanted to watch a `movie' and not a `sitcom' but I thought that if done right then it could prove to be a good time at least. Instead I got something that doesn't even qualify as a `Dawson's Creek' style romp; a film that merely skims across the surface of stimulation and barely comes off as entertaining. Even it's `film about nothing yet about so much more' approach is staggering and winds up being a film about nothing that is ultimately about nothing.
I know I am in the minority here, but honestly, I can't bring myself to lie.
I will say first and foremost that I adore films that seem to have no point but in the end touch us so deeply. I'm all for that, but `L'Auberge Espagnole' is not that kind of film, at least not for me. I gathered nothing from this experience, except shattered hopes and aspirations since the film wound up being so much less than I anticipated. After seeing Audrey Tautou sizzle and score with ... Read More
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