The Spanish Apartment
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| L'Auberge espagnole | |
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 The Spanish Apartment |
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| Directed by | Cédric Klapisch |
| Produced by | Bruno Levy |
| Written by | Cédric Klapisch |
| Starring | Judith Godrèche Romain Duris Audrey Tautou |
| Music by | Various Artists |
| Cinematography | Dominique Colin |
| Editing by | Francine Sandberg |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox (USA) |
| Release date(s) | May 17, 2002 |
| Running time | 122 min. |
| Language | French, English, Spanish |
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The Spanish Apartment (L'Auberge espagnole- The Spanish Inn) is a 2002 French film directed and written by Cédric Klapisch. It is about Xavier, an Economics graduate student studying for a year in Barcelona, Spain as part of the Erasmus programme, where he encounters and learns from a group of students who hail from all over Western Europe.
The title of the film literally means "the Spanish hostel", and is a French expression meaning something out of which one gets what one puts in; it is sometimes also used to mean a busy, chaotic place. The English title of the film is Pot Luck in the UK and Canada, and The Spanish Apartment in the USA and Australia; Euro Pudding is an international title it was given. In Spain, where it is set, it was released as Una casa de locos — "Madhouse".
The film's portrayal is in the first-person perspective of the main character, Xavier, and is hence mainly narrated in French. Some of the dialogue is in English however, and a significant amount is in Spanish, as well as small amounts in Catalan, Danish, German and Italian.
The marketing for the film tends to focus on Audrey Tautou - the movie's most internationally well-known star - despite the fact that she only plays a relatively small supporting role in the film.
The movie has a sequel, The Russian Dolls.
[edit] Primary cast:
- Romain Duris : Xavier
- Barnaby Metschurat : Tobias
- Judith Godrèche : Anne-Sophie
- Cécile de France : Isabelle
- Kelly Reilly : Wendy
- Audrey Tautou : Martine
- Cristina Brondo : Soledad
- Kevin Bishop : William
- Federico D'Anna : Alessandro
[edit] Soundtrack
The Spanish Apartment features a diverse soundtrack, which includes:
- Radiohead - No Surprises
- Daft Punk - Aerodynamic
- Sonia & Selena - Que Viva La Noche
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Te Deum
- Frédéric Chopin - Opus 64 No 2 Waltz in C sharp minor
- Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry (played/sung by some of the characters)
[edit] Awards
Award wins:
Award nominations:
- César Award for Best Film
- César Award for Best Director — Cédric Klapisch
- César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role — Judith Godrèche
- César Award for Best Screenplay — Cédric Klapisch
- César Award for Best Editing — Francine Sandberg
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