L'auberge espagnole – Barcelona für ein Jahr (2002)

L’auberge espagnole – Barcelona für ein Jahr: Directed by Cédric Klapisch. With Romain Duris, Judith Godrèche, Audrey Tautou, Cécile de France. A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.

“Iu0026#39;m scratching my head thinking about which language I should use to write here, American English, Castilian, Catalan, Danish, English, Flemish, French, German, Italian??? They are all spoken at least once in the movie. Cinch, I just adopt the official language of the housemate recruitment meeting: English.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe Eramus apartment in Barcelona is absolutely a microcosm, a miniature replica of EU where the Europeans are now moving around studying, working, having romance, breaking up, having affair, getting married. However, they may not respect one another, they may not speak one anotheru0026#39;s language, they may not understand or want to know about the culture and history of other countries, otherwise, William would not so carelessly think that German Nazi, Adolf Hitler are objects for making fun of.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIs EU offering benefits or battles? Xavier was in a loss, every part of his life after leaving Paris for Barcelona: cultural shock, the linguistic misunderstanding, loss of mother tongue (identity, culture, wow means very much here), loss of the relationship with his girlfriend, loss of friendship (after the affair with the physicianu0026#39;s wife Judith Godrèche disclosed). Nevertheless, he gained European friends from all European housemates. How they help Wendy to avoid being seen by Alistair when she is having fun with an American man in bed, they act unanimously to run towards their apartment.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eXavieru0026#39;s study is symbolic: Economics. Why the establishment of EU? One of the reasons is to build up power to balance the one that the US has been enjoying for too long in both political and economic arenas. And the film states it pretty clearly which country wants to be the boss of EU. Wendy is the leader of the house who always clean, keep the apartment and u0026quot;disciplineu0026quot; the other while the serious Xavier successfully gains the trust of the u0026quot;foreignu0026quot; landlord. Wendy (UK) is the Minister of Internal Affairs and Xavier (France) is the Minister of Foreign Relations. Anyway, Wendy got a u0026quot;Wu0026quot; initial which is a few steps ahead of Xavieru0026#39;s u0026quot;Xu0026quot;.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eClever and observant movie about the Europe and its people today. The apartment should take in four more people: British Indian, Swiss Korean (North Asian), French Mauritanian (Arab Muslim) and Spanish Moroccan (Muslin) etc to make a even wider world stage. It will be far more an unexpected intrigue than the real world we experience. Both warming (the people) and warning (the peopleu0026#39;s relationship).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eJu0026#39;adore this pelicula very much. Vive lu0026#39;Europe! Viva Europa!”