L'auberge espagnole (literally: The Spanish Inn), released in English speaking territories as Pot Luck 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, Catalonia 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", a...
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L'auberge espagnole (literally: The Spanish Inn), released in English speaking territories as Pot Luck 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, Catalonia 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 idiom for a hodgepodge of 'ingredients,' sort of like a potluck. It is also sometimes used to mean a busy, chaotic place. The English title of the film is Pot Luck in the UK and Canada; Euro Pudding is an international title it was given, and it is also known as The Spanish Apartment. 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,...
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