L'auberge espagnole

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Movie
German title L'auberge espagnole
Original title L'Auberge Espagnole
Country of production France , Spain
original language French , Spanish , English
Publishing year 2002
length 121 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 10
Rod
Director Cédric Klapisch
script Cédric Klapisch
production Bruno Levy
music Patrick Ardagh-Walter
camera Dominique Colin
cut Francine Sandberg
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
L'auberge espagnole - reunion in St. Petersburg

L'auberge espagnole (alternative title: L'auberge espagnole - Barcelona for one year , Spanish title: Una casa de locos , in German also: Barcelona for one year ) is a Spanish - French comedy film by Cédric Klapisch from 2002. This followed in 2005 the second part reunion in St. Petersburg and 2013 the third part or New York .

action

The French economics student Xavier spends two semesters abroad in the Spanish metropolis of Barcelona , supported by the EU's Erasmus program , as he has to be familiar with the Spanish economy for his prospective job in a ministry. There he meets other Erasmus students from other European countries.

His long-term friend Martine doesn't understand this decision - she thinks Xavier is selfish and feels neglected. When he finally arrives in Barcelona after a tearful goodbye to her, he meets a young French couple at the airport: Anne-Sophie and her husband, a neurologist. He lived with them for a few days until he found a place to live. Xavier moves into a shared apartment with other students from all over Europe: Soledad from Catalonia and her boyfriend, the Dane Lars, the Italian Alessandro, Wendy from England, Tobias from Germany and the Franco-Belgian Isabelle. Xavier especially likes Isabelle. However, she is in a relationship with a woman and the two begin a platonic friendship.

The flat share members have a largely harmonious coexistence - apart from disputes that result from different views on the order. When Xavier's friend Martine visits him in Barcelona, ​​both have already become estranged. A short time later they break up. Xavier begins an affair with the shy Anne-Sophie, while the life of the flat share is characterized by beginning and ending relationships. When Wendy's brother comes to visit from England and lives in the flat for some time, the harmony is disturbed. While the other flat share members are considerate of each other, he insults several roommates with his manner.

After Anne-Sophie confesses to her husband, Xavier breaks off their relationship with both of them. He went through a depressive phase that led to the occasional Erasmus of Rotterdam appearing to him. Towards the end of the film, Wendy's friend Alistair suddenly appears. The flat share residents, meanwhile grown into a sworn community, prevent the latter from discovering their American lover. When the year is over, Xavier has a hard time saying goodbye to his friends. The year in Barcelona was one of the best and most turbulent of his life for Xavier: he got to know the world and made good friends. He throws a farewell party and then flies back to Paris sadly. On his first day at work, he escapes the ministerial bureaucracy and decides not to devote his life to a career, but to his childhood dream, writing.

background

The action depicts the life of Erasmus students abroad and enjoys a certain cult status among former Erasmus students.

L'auberge espagnole literally means "Spanish hostel" and is common in French for a hostel that does not offer food and where you have to live on what everyone has brought with them - and is usually shared and swapped.

Reviews

"Lively comedy about young adults with lovingly drawn characters and a portion of depth that entertains with sometimes surprising solutions to problems," said the lexicon of international films . Matthias Heine from the Berliner Morgenpost stated that the optimistic film conveyed “its message that the chaos of Europe growing together corresponds to the chaos of young people's search for meaning, sometimes excessively”. But this is “appropriate” in relation to the subject and works “like the urge to tell a story of a young person who considers everything that happens to him to be a very unique and definitely worth communicating experience”.

Carmen Böker from the Berliner Zeitung described L'auberge espagnole as "a very lengthy work with a running time of two hours" and counted it among the "drive and alcohol-driven awakening comedies". However, the film seems "in its harmlessness (and despite some fashionable time-lapse sequences) as it was made a few decades before the crude American Pie series : All excesses - you have to use the old-fashioned attribute here - seem downright lascivious."

Awards

  • Brisbane International Film Festival 2003
    • Audience award
  • César 2003
    • Best young actress (Meilleur jeune espoir féminin): Cécile De France
    • Nominated for Best Director (Meilleur réalisateur): Cédric Klapisch
    • Nominated for best film (Meilleur film): Cédric Klapisch
    • Nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Meilleure actrice dans un second rôle): Judith Godrèche
    • Nominated for the best screenplay (Meilleur scénario, original ou adaptation): Cédric Klapisch
    • Nominated for the best cut (Meilleur montage): Francine Sandberg
  • European Film Award 2002
    • Nominated for Best Director Cédric Klapisch
  • Gijón International Film Festival 2002
    • Nominated for the best film: Cédric Klapisch
  • Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2002
    • Audience award: Cédric Klapisch
    • Nominated for Crystal Globe: Cédric Klapisch
  • Vancouver Film Critics Circle 2004
    • Nominated for best foreign film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for L'auberge espagnole . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2003 (PDF; test number: 95 544 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for L'auberge espagnole . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Overview of the soundtrack
  4. ↑ cf. kulthit.de
  5. ↑ cf. tagblatt.de
  6. ↑ Aline Angoustures: L'Espagne . Le Cavalier Bleu, 2004, ISBN 978-2-84670-078-8 , p.  117 .
  7. ↑ L'auberge espagnole. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  8. ↑ Matthias Heine: Come in, if it's not Rumsfeld. In: Berliner Morgenpost , November 13, 2003.
  9. ↑ Carmen Böker: Erasmus, excesses, adult stuss . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 13, 2003.