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It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

why it is a great film remains the question without answer. maybe, its freshness is the right response. or the memories from student life period of the viewer. or the cool characters. or Romain Duris. or the wise script. or the French air. for me, long time, "L'auberge espagnole" was the most inspired pledge for European Union existence, out of institutions from Bruxelles, out of recommendations , out of its tools for create a poor and empty concept as political/economical system. a film about an unique age and about the essence of Europe. smart, spiritual, adorable and admirable. or just profound convincing pledge for friendship as the best way to live.

What a disappointment this flick turned out to be. It doesn't even merit the word 'film'.The camera-work is so-so, there are needlessly sped-up scenes of the main jerk walking around various offices and streets, and it generally left no real impression. With such a wonderful setting as Barcelona, much more could have been done with this.My main grievance is with the characters and the plot, all of which are terrifyingly hollow. The main chap, Xavier, is nothing short of an asshole. He cares about women only so far as he can use them sexually, thinks nothing of rape-seducing a married woman, and then sulks when his girlfriend dumps him for another. There's nothing to like about him. He isn't deep, he isn't exciting, and he isn't charming.The other people in the apartment suffer similar problems. They are cookie-cutter characters. The German is the studious, organised, anally retentive flatmate. The English girl appears to be a neat-freak, frustrated, and ultimately sexually somewhat immoral. (The one 'bonding' experience these flatmates have is in fact to hide her cheating from her English partner). The Spanish girl is just there for a few sentences, and the Danish guy also seems not to serve a purpose.Now to the plot, if such it is. Xavier is frightened of growing up and committing to anything. So he leaves France, and aims for Barcelona. There he parties up large, ostensibly studying, while trying to sleep with as many women as possible. He and girlfriend break up. He returns to France, can't handle the idea of an office job, and decides to turn his mediocre adventures into a book. All of this takes up nearly two hours, which is far too long for all this white noise.There is no message in this film unless one of cynical nihilism. It is a product of its time and generation, one that uses copious lazy stereotyping while trying to somehow claim it is being inclusive of European identities. It fails on all levels.

This is a friendly, quite fun film that explores European identity and young people getting along - or at least trying to. I'm writing this is as an older person who was never been a student, but was that age, once.Xavier (Romain Duras), a Parisian who wants to study Economics, goes on an exchange programme to Barcelona and the film charts his successes - and failures - along the way. There's everything from change of language, that Catalan is spoken instead of Spanish at his University and of, course, finding accommodation - that scourge of all students.When he does finally find somewhere, it's already populated by an assortment of students each from a different country (I think!), including an English girl from London, Kelly Reilly, who happens to end up doing most of the housework. This naturally conjures up the expected sort of mischiefs and misunderstandings, humorous rather than hilarious, more real life than made up comedy. It's during these nicely scatty and warm interludes when the film shines brightest.Some have accused the individual relationships of both Xavier and Wendy (Reilly) of weakening the strength of the story, but I disagree. They add to the movie's 2 hour length, admittedly and as since both play away from home, so to speak, there's some twists and turns. I enjoyed Xavier's more, partly because his French girlfriend that he leaves behind is the amazingly gorgeous Audrey Tatou (a great excuse to watch the film) and the girl he gets to know intimately, from when she suffers a dizzy spell high up on the Church of Sagrada Familia, the equally lovely Cecile de France, who happens to be married to a neurosurgeon.Many parts are akin to a backpacker's guide, with lots of street scenes and stuff, which are nice to look at, of course. Comedy (sort of) comes when Wendy's brother, wide-boy and bit of a t*sser, William, played by Kevin Bishop, visits for a while. He's cringe-worthingly crass and rather stupid, "accidentally" makes racist remarks and is a certain embarrassment to his sister, who has to literally carry him home after a mega-binge. He pukes to the other's chorus, with guitar, of 'No Woman, No Cry' in the Square, at dawn. So he lived up to our country's unsavoury reputation, at least!After quite a few other things going on, including Wendy's English boyfriend dropping in unexpectedly, whilst Wendy is fooling around with her American lover, the whole lot dissembles much in the same way as it formed, but in reverse. People said their impassioned goodbyes and we then see Xavier back in Paris, starting work.Pot Luck will appeal to all who not only enjoy European travel, Barcelona, of course but also any film that champions human friendships and relationships and one that isn't too heavy. You could watch it on a miserable day and it'd cheer you up and likewise, on a sunny one, as it would seem fitting and even more enjoyable.

L'auberg espagnole tells the story of Xavier, a french student that in order to secure a job has to learn Spanish and know the Spanish financial market inside out. The only way to do this is to live in Spain, so he applies for the Erasmus program and moves to Spain where he lives for one year in a small flat with a bunch of other students, all of them from different countries.Xavier gets along with his room mates just fine and makes quick friends wherever he goes. He also gets in a relationship with an older woman despite having a girlfriend in France. The film is all about the adventures of this students while living in Spain and the changes in Xavier's life in this one year period. The premise of the film is interesting but it turned out to be a bit of a mess...we have all this characters speaking different languages at the same time( not that I didn't understand,it was just too messy) plus the plot drifts way too much and the acting was cringe-worthy at times.Not every time but there were a few "embarrassing" scenes.Nevertheless it was fun to watch this students and their adventures.Its a quirky,fun, lighthearted movie but its just average.6/10