L'Auberge espagnole
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.
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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 ($5.6 million) |
| Box office | $33.3 million |
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).