L'Auberge Espagnole

It's an exhilarating, funny, very sweet movie.Read Full Review »

In almost every way that I can think of, L'Auberge Espagnole is a perfect movie... It is a film that feels alive.Read Full Review »

A love song to the new Europe (Klapisch's original title: Euro Pudding) and a snapshot of a polyglot gang on the cusp of kind-of-reckless youth and responsibility-burdened adulthood.Read Full Review »

Exhilarating comedy...Its warm, embracing spirit is refreshing in these divisive times.Read Full Review »

The movie also rather sweetly suggests that the apartment being shared is Europe itself. There's a reason this warm, stylish human comedy was a big hit all across the Continent: It conveys a new generation's conviction that borders no longer matter.Read Full Review »

It energetically captures the frenzied pace of contemporary existence, the complexities of life in a multicultural world, the rootless joys of living in a foreign city and the heady world of possibilities one envisions while in college.Read Full Review »

The atmosphere of gentle communal chaos is authentic enough to become the movie's dramatic center.Read Full Review »

A lighthearted, good-natured motion picture that contains enough humor to leaven the tone and keep the drama from becoming too serious.Read Full Review »

The movie is as light and frothy as a French comedy, which is what it is, a reminder that Cedric Klapisch also directed "When the Cat's Away" (1996).Read Full Review »

Presents an appealing and persuasive picture of European integration, in which national differences, which once sparked military and political conflict, are preserved because they make life sexier and more interesting.Read Full Review »