L'Auberge Espagnole Movie Review 2002

Exuberant comedy that follows a French student during an eventful year in Barcelona. Xavier (Duris) is advised to study Spanish and Spanish economics in order to secure a government job. So he signs up for a European exchange program, bids goodbye to girlfriend Martine (Tantou), and heads to Spain where he eventually moves into a lively rooming house filled with fellow students. Xavier is a ittle bit of a rogue and is soon squiring around (at her husband's request), the shy wife (Godreche) of an obnoxious countryman and developing a crush on a Belgian exchange student (de France), who is interested in Xavier only as a friend. Barcelona's baroque charms are also another character in Klapisch's light-hearted production. English, French, and Spanish with subtitles.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 117 minutes.
Originally from French, Spanish.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Spain, Romantic Comedy, Barcelona, Lesbians, Culture Clash

Screenplay

Cedric Klapisch

Cast

Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Judith Godreche, Cecile de France, Kelly Reilly, Kevin Bishop, Xavier De Guillebon

Cinematography

Dominique Colin

Director

Cedric Klapisch

Other

Cyril Moisson, Francine Sandberg, Francois Emmanuelli, Anne Schotte

Producer

Bruno Levy, BAC Films Ltd., France 2 Cinema, StudioCanal, Mate Productions, Fox Searchlight