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| Directed by | Cédric Klapisch |
| Written by | Cédric Klapisch |
| Produced by | Bruno Levy |
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| Cinematography | Dominique Colin |
| Edited by | Francine Sandberg |
| Music by | Loïk Dury a.k.a. Kouz 1 |
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Running time | 122 minutes |
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| Budget | €5 million[1] ($5.6 million) |
| Box office | $33.3 million[2] |
L'Auberge espagnole (French: [lobɛʁʒ ɛspaɲɔl], lit. 'The Spanish Inn'), also known as Pot Luck (United Kingdom) and The Spanish Apartment (Australia), is a 2002 romantic comedy-drama film directed and written by Cédric Klapisch. It is a co-production between France and Spain.[3]
In the film, an economics graduate student from France, Xavier, spends a year in Barcelona to study. His fellow Erasmus students are from all over Western Europe and have a flatshare. They each speak different languages and have different cultural standards.
The film is told in the first person by Xavier. The dialogue is mostly in French, with some English and much Spanish, a little Catalan, Danish, German and Italian.
It is the first instalment in the "Spanish Apartment" trilogy, which continues in the sequels Russian Dolls (2005) and Chinese Puzzle (2013).[4]
- ^ "L'Auberge espagnole". JP Box-Office (in French). Archived from the original on 5 August 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
- ^ "The Spanish Apartment (2002)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
- ^ "L'Auberge espagnole – Cinémathèque française" (in French). La Bibliothèque du film. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
- ^ "Cédric Klapisch tourne Casse-tête chinois à New York". Le Figaro (in French). 11 September 2012. Archived from the original on 15 November 2012. Retrieved 7 December 2012.