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The trilogy ends in 2013 with''Chinese Puzzle'' '''''Chinese Puzzle''''' and shows Xavier struggling with others problems like his separation, giving a child to his lesbian friend via surrogacy and immigrating to New York.
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''The Spanish Apartment'' (''L'Auberge espagnole'') is a 2002 film by Cédric Klapisch, starring Creator/AudreyTautou. The title refers to a French phrase: an "auberge espagnole" is a messy place.
Xavier (Creator/RomainDuris) is a Parisian graduate student who needs to earn a degree in Spanish in order to get a cushy job at the Finance Ministry. He applies to the [[http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc80_en.htm ERASMUS]] exchange program, and arrives in Barcelona. With no place to go, he crashes on the sofa of a couple he met in the plane, but eventually finds an apartment, a cramped and messy flat shared by a bunch of foreign students.
Each of them comes from a different country--Wendy is British, Alessandro is Italian, Isabelle is Belgian, Lars is Danish, Soledad is Spanish and Tobias is German--making the apartment a microcosm of the EU.
Xavier (Creator/RomainDuris) is a Parisian graduate student who needs to earn a degree in Spanish in order to get a cushy job at the Finance Ministry. He applies to the [[http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc80_en.htm ERASMUS]] exchange program, and arrives in Barcelona. With no place to go, he crashes on the sofa of a couple he met in the plane, but eventually finds an apartment, a cramped and messy flat shared by a bunch of foreign students.
Each of them comes from a different country--Wendy is British, Alessandro is Italian, Isabelle is Belgian, Lars is Danish, Soledad is Spanish and Tobias is German--making the apartment a microcosm of the EU.
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''The Spanish Apartment'' (''L'Auberge espagnole'') is a 2002 film by Cédric Klapisch, starring Creator/AudreyTautou.Creator/RomainDuris, Creator/AudreyTautou and Cécile de France. The title refers to a French phrase: an "auberge espagnole" is a messy place.
Xavier(Creator/RomainDuris) (Duris) is a Parisian graduate student who needs to earn a degree in Spanish in order to get a cushy job at the Finance Ministry. He applies to the [[http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc80_en.htm ERASMUS]] exchange program, and arrives in Barcelona. With no place to go, he crashes on the sofa of a couple he met in the plane, but eventually finds an apartment, a cramped and messy flat shared by a bunch of foreign students.
Each of them comes from a different country--Wendy is British, Alessandro is Italian, Isabelle (de France) is Belgian, Lars is Danish, Soledad is Spanish and Tobias is German--making the apartment a microcosm of the EU.
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Xavier (Romain Duris) is a Parisian graduate student who needs to earn a degree in Spanish in order to get a cushy job at the Finance Ministry. He applies to the [[http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc80_en.htm ERASMUS]] exchange program, and arrives in Barcelona. With no place to go, he crashes on the sofa of a couple he met in the plane, but eventually finds an apartment, a cramped and messy flat shared by a bunch of foreign students.
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Xavier (Romain Duris) (Creator/RomainDuris) is a Parisian graduate student who needs to earn a degree in Spanish in order to get a cushy job at the Finance Ministry. He applies to the [[http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc80_en.htm ERASMUS]] exchange program, and arrives in Barcelona. With no place to go, he crashes on the sofa of a couple he met in the plane, but eventually finds an apartment, a cramped and messy flat shared by a bunch of foreign students.
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-> ''"I'm like Europe, I'm a real mess!"''
''The Spanish Apartment'' (''L'Auberge espagnole'') is a film by Cédric Klapisch released in 2002. The title refers to a French phrase: an "auberge espagnole" is a messy place.
Xavier (Romain Duris) is a Parisian graduate student who needs to earn a degree in Spanish in order to get a cushy job at the Finance Ministry. He applies to the [[http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc80_en.htm ERASMUS]] exchange program, and arrives in Barcelona. With no place to go, he crashes on the sofa of a couple he met in the plane, but eventually finds an apartment, a cramped and messy flat shared by a bunch of foreign students.
Each of them comes from a different country--Wendy is British, Alessandro is Italian, Isabelle is Belgian, Lars is Danish, Soledad is Spanish and Tobias is German--making the apartment a microcosm of the EU.
A sequel, ''The Russian Dolls'', was made in 2005, and shows how Xavier and his former flatmates have turned out five years later.
The trilogy ends in 2013 with ''Chinese Puzzle'' and shows Xavier struggling with others problems like his separation, giving a child to his lesbian friend via surrogacy and immigrating to New York.
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!!Contains examples of:
* AmicableExes: Xavier and Martine in the sequels [[spoiler: until they go back together.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Wendy's brother William is a loutish oaf who gets on everyone's nerves. In the sequel he is somewhat better.
* AttractiveBentGender: Xavier in the sequel, sort of. He does have a REALLY hairy chest though.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Averted. [[spoiler:One day Lars's ex-girlfriend shows up at the flat with her baby and tells him he's the father. It doesn't bring them back together, and sends him into a deep funk.]]
* BetterAsFriends: Isabelle and Xavier.
-->'''Isabelle:''' ''"Pity you aren't a girl!"''
* BilingualBonus: Understanding French ''and'' Spanish helps.
** If you can't tell the difference between Spanish and Catalan, the scene where Isabelle asks to her professor to teach in Spanish rather than Catalan may be, well, weird.
* ButchLesbian: Isabelle.
* TheCameo: Lars, Soledad, Alessandro, and Tobias in the sequel.
* CitizenshipMarriage: In order to most easily stay in New York and be with his kids, Xavier is told by his lawyer to find an American girl and get married to her. When he saves a Chinese cab driver who'd been beaten up by driving his cab to the hospital, the cab driver asks if there's anything he could do to help. Xavier somewhat jokingly mentions that he needs to get married, and conveniently enough the cab driver has an American niece, Nancy, who is amenable to the plan. At the end of the movie Xavier says that he'll find [[spoiler: Martine]] an American so that she can stay as well.
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* TheDitz: Anne-Sophie.
* DreamSequence: When Xavier goes in for a brain scan.
* EagleLand: sort of a Type 2, in that the flatmates (particularly Xavier) seem to have a mild contempt for Bruce the American and think he's an idiot, but we're never really shown this to have any rational basis
** The third movie, set largely in New York City, averts this trope largely, except in that Xavier needs to work under-the-table jobs and do a CitizenshipMarriage in order to stay in the US.
* EmbarrassingCoverUp: [[spoiler:William rescues his sister by pretending [[HoYay he was the one in bed with her lover]] when her regular boyfriend shows up without notice.]]
** Receives a callback in the third movie when Isabelle's partner Ju (who is also Xavier's landlord) calls him to tell him that INS is planning on visiting his apartment to prove that he's actually living with the woman he married for a CitizenshipMarriage, right after [[spoiler: Isabelle came by to borrow the keys so she could use his apartment as a love nest for her girl on the side]], causing Xavier to have to make a similar mad dash as in the first film.
* EverybodySmokes: Pretty much. And spliffs at least as often as cigarettes, too.
* EveryoneIsSingle: Averted, but considering how casually they cheat on their respective significant others, they may as well be.
* FriendsRentControl: Averted. It's precisely because none of them could afford to live on their own that the students share the flat.
* FriendshipMoment: All the tenants scramble to [[spoiler: prevent Wendy's boyfriend from finding out she's in bed with another guy.]]
* FunWithAcronyms: ERASMUS stands for European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students. Not that you learn this from the film...
* FunWithForeignLanguages:
** Considering that it's a French film set in the Catalan-speaking part of Spain with most of the characters [[GratuitousEnglish using English all the time]], the movie occasionally delves into this territory. One particularly memorable moment is when the English girl misunderstands the French slang word "fac". It's short for ''faculté.''
** "L'auberge espagnole" is a double entendre. It's literally about a Spanish apartment, but the title is an expression that means "mess" in French, which is also appropriate.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Isabelle gives Xavier a tutorial in female pleasure by getting it on with her girlfriend in front of him.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Isabelle laments the fact that Xavier is male.
* InherentlyFunnyWords: Urquinaona.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Xavier ends up pursuing a writer's career, and his first book is about his time in Barcelona.
* TheLadette: Isabelle.
* LastGirlWins: Xavier met her before several other girlfriends of his, but the last girl he starts a relationship with in ''Russian Dolls" is [[spoiler: Wendy]], and she's the one he ends up with.
** However in Chinese Puzzle [[spoiler: FirstGirlWins: After 10 years and two children, Wendy leaves Xavier for an American. In the end Xavier and his first girlfriend Martine who also had two children from failed relationships decide to get back together and live in New York.]]
* LoveTriangle: Xavier has an affair with Anne-Sophie.
* MarketBasedTitle: Depending on where you are in the world, you may know the film as ''L'auberge espagnole'', ''The Spanish Apartment'', ''Europudding'' or ''Pot Luck''.
* MeetCute: Jean-Michel and Anne-Sophie met cute, and predictably, they never tire of telling everyone how they met.
* {{Narrator}}: Xavier provides the voiceover.
* NationalStereotypes: Lampshaded by William, who observes that the German student's side of the room is much tidier than the Italian student's side. "You Germans, you like order, don't you?"
** Later on in the same scene he explicitly references Adolf Hitler. This is about the point where everyone in the apartment but Wendy want to throw him out on his ass
** Also present with the way everyone treats Bruce, the American guitar player that Wendy starts messing around with, who Xavier explicitly refers to as a "stupid American," even though we're never given any reason to think he's less intelligent than any of the others (granted, they're graduate students and he's a busker, but still... or given that the movie takes place over the course of a year, with regular gaps in time, they probably know more about him than what is shown).
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Signing up for the ERASMUS program involves dealing with uncooperative secretaries and filling out loads of paperwork.
* PlanningWithProps: Jean-Pierre, a neurosurgeon, explains to Xavier the workings of the human brain by using food items as props.
* ScoobyStack: Happens when the tenants want to find out how the negotiation between Xavier and the landlord is going, but don't dare come out of Wendy's room where they're all hiding.
* ShoutOut: Jean-Michel, when Xavier asks him if he can crash at his place until he finds steady accommodation, references ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} in Iberia'' by answering "Between Gauls, we've got to help each other out!"
* SliceOfLife: There isn't really a plot, the story is simply about Xavier's year in Barcelona.
* SplitScreen: When the various characters rush back to the flat in order to get Wendy out of trouble.
* TitleDrop: Xavier looks up the dictionary definition of ''auberge espagnole''. "As with literature, so with a Spanish inn: you will only find in it what you brought in the first place."
* TorosYFlamenco: Averted; this Spain looks decidedly genuine and un-Hollywoodish. But Isabelle does take flamenco classes.
** To be fair, flamenco ''is'' popular in Spain: it's just not as ubiquitous as Hollywood thinks it is.
** William's stereotypical beliefs about Spain put him on the wrong foot with everyone the first night he crashes, particularly Soledad
* TrashOfTheTitans: Everyone in the flat thinks that cleaning up is someone else's job, except Wendy, who goes understandably crazy over it.
* TrueCompanions: the residents of the apartment by the end of the movie. In the sequel they've drifted apart, but they're still obviously thrilled to see each other at [[spoiler: William's wedding.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Martine.
** Wendy has some elements of this as well.
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Most prominently Anne-Sophie, but Wendy as well.]]
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-> ''"I'm like Europe, I'm a real mess!"''
''The Spanish Apartment'' (''L'Auberge espagnole'') is a film by Cédric Klapisch released in 2002. The title refers to a French phrase: an "auberge espagnole" is a messy place.
Xavier (Romain Duris) is a Parisian graduate student who needs to earn a degree in Spanish in order to get a cushy job at the Finance Ministry. He applies to the [[http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc80_en.htm ERASMUS]] exchange program, and arrives in Barcelona. With no place to go, he crashes on the sofa of a couple he met in the plane, but eventually finds an apartment, a cramped and messy flat shared by a bunch of foreign students.
Each of them comes from a different country--Wendy is British, Alessandro is Italian, Isabelle is Belgian, Lars is Danish, Soledad is Spanish and Tobias is German--making the apartment a microcosm of the EU.
A sequel, ''The Russian Dolls'', was made in 2005, and shows how Xavier and his former flatmates have turned out five years later.
The trilogy ends in 2013 with ''Chinese Puzzle'' and shows Xavier struggling with others problems like his separation, giving a child to his lesbian friend via surrogacy and immigrating to New York.
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* AmicableExes: Xavier and Martine in the sequels [[spoiler: until they go back together.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Wendy's brother William is a loutish oaf who gets on everyone's nerves. In the sequel he is somewhat better.
* AttractiveBentGender: Xavier in the sequel, sort of. He does have a REALLY hairy chest though.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Averted. [[spoiler:One day Lars's ex-girlfriend shows up at the flat with her baby and tells him he's the father. It doesn't bring them back together, and sends him into a deep funk.]]
* BetterAsFriends: Isabelle and Xavier.
-->'''Isabelle:''' ''"Pity you aren't a girl!"''
* BilingualBonus: Understanding French ''and'' Spanish helps.
** If you can't tell the difference between Spanish and Catalan, the scene where Isabelle asks to her professor to teach in Spanish rather than Catalan may be, well, weird.
* ButchLesbian: Isabelle.
* TheCameo: Lars, Soledad, Alessandro, and Tobias in the sequel.
* CitizenshipMarriage: In order to most easily stay in New York and be with his kids, Xavier is told by his lawyer to find an American girl and get married to her. When he saves a Chinese cab driver who'd been beaten up by driving his cab to the hospital, the cab driver asks if there's anything he could do to help. Xavier somewhat jokingly mentions that he needs to get married, and conveniently enough the cab driver has an American niece, Nancy, who is amenable to the plan. At the end of the movie Xavier says that he'll find [[spoiler: Martine]] an American so that she can stay as well.
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* TheDitz: Anne-Sophie.
* DreamSequence: When Xavier goes in for a brain scan.
* EagleLand: sort of a Type 2, in that the flatmates (particularly Xavier) seem to have a mild contempt for Bruce the American and think he's an idiot, but we're never really shown this to have any rational basis
** The third movie, set largely in New York City, averts this trope largely, except in that Xavier needs to work under-the-table jobs and do a CitizenshipMarriage in order to stay in the US.
* EmbarrassingCoverUp: [[spoiler:William rescues his sister by pretending [[HoYay he was the one in bed with her lover]] when her regular boyfriend shows up without notice.]]
** Receives a callback in the third movie when Isabelle's partner Ju (who is also Xavier's landlord) calls him to tell him that INS is planning on visiting his apartment to prove that he's actually living with the woman he married for a CitizenshipMarriage, right after [[spoiler: Isabelle came by to borrow the keys so she could use his apartment as a love nest for her girl on the side]], causing Xavier to have to make a similar mad dash as in the first film.
* EverybodySmokes: Pretty much. And spliffs at least as often as cigarettes, too.
* EveryoneIsSingle: Averted, but considering how casually they cheat on their respective significant others, they may as well be.
* FriendsRentControl: Averted. It's precisely because none of them could afford to live on their own that the students share the flat.
* FriendshipMoment: All the tenants scramble to [[spoiler: prevent Wendy's boyfriend from finding out she's in bed with another guy.]]
* FunWithAcronyms: ERASMUS stands for European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students. Not that you learn this from the film...
* FunWithForeignLanguages:
** Considering that it's a French film set in the Catalan-speaking part of Spain with most of the characters [[GratuitousEnglish using English all the time]], the movie occasionally delves into this territory. One particularly memorable moment is when the English girl misunderstands the French slang word "fac". It's short for ''faculté.''
** "L'auberge espagnole" is a double entendre. It's literally about a Spanish apartment, but the title is an expression that means "mess" in French, which is also appropriate.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Isabelle gives Xavier a tutorial in female pleasure by getting it on with her girlfriend in front of him.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Isabelle laments the fact that Xavier is male.
* InherentlyFunnyWords: Urquinaona.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Xavier ends up pursuing a writer's career, and his first book is about his time in Barcelona.
* TheLadette: Isabelle.
* LastGirlWins: Xavier met her before several other girlfriends of his, but the last girl he starts a relationship with in ''Russian Dolls" is [[spoiler: Wendy]], and she's the one he ends up with.
** However in Chinese Puzzle [[spoiler: FirstGirlWins: After 10 years and two children, Wendy leaves Xavier for an American. In the end Xavier and his first girlfriend Martine who also had two children from failed relationships decide to get back together and live in New York.]]
* LoveTriangle: Xavier has an affair with Anne-Sophie.
* MarketBasedTitle: Depending on where you are in the world, you may know the film as ''L'auberge espagnole'', ''The Spanish Apartment'', ''Europudding'' or ''Pot Luck''.
* MeetCute: Jean-Michel and Anne-Sophie met cute, and predictably, they never tire of telling everyone how they met.
* {{Narrator}}: Xavier provides the voiceover.
* NationalStereotypes: Lampshaded by William, who observes that the German student's side of the room is much tidier than the Italian student's side. "You Germans, you like order, don't you?"
** Later on in the same scene he explicitly references Adolf Hitler. This is about the point where everyone in the apartment but Wendy want to throw him out on his ass
** Also present with the way everyone treats Bruce, the American guitar player that Wendy starts messing around with, who Xavier explicitly refers to as a "stupid American," even though we're never given any reason to think he's less intelligent than any of the others (granted, they're graduate students and he's a busker, but still... or given that the movie takes place over the course of a year, with regular gaps in time, they probably know more about him than what is shown).
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Signing up for the ERASMUS program involves dealing with uncooperative secretaries and filling out loads of paperwork.
* PlanningWithProps: Jean-Pierre, a neurosurgeon, explains to Xavier the workings of the human brain by using food items as props.
* ScoobyStack: Happens when the tenants want to find out how the negotiation between Xavier and the landlord is going, but don't dare come out of Wendy's room where they're all hiding.
* ShoutOut: Jean-Michel, when Xavier asks him if he can crash at his place until he finds steady accommodation, references ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} in Iberia'' by answering "Between Gauls, we've got to help each other out!"
* SliceOfLife: There isn't really a plot, the story is simply about Xavier's year in Barcelona.
* SplitScreen: When the various characters rush back to the flat in order to get Wendy out of trouble.
* TitleDrop: Xavier looks up the dictionary definition of ''auberge espagnole''. "As with literature, so with a Spanish inn: you will only find in it what you brought in the first place."
* TorosYFlamenco: Averted; this Spain looks decidedly genuine and un-Hollywoodish. But Isabelle does take flamenco classes.
** To be fair, flamenco ''is'' popular in Spain: it's just not as ubiquitous as Hollywood thinks it is.
** William's stereotypical beliefs about Spain put him on the wrong foot with everyone the first night he crashes, particularly Soledad
* TrashOfTheTitans: Everyone in the flat thinks that cleaning up is someone else's job, except Wendy, who goes understandably crazy over it.
* TrueCompanions: the residents of the apartment by the end of the movie. In the sequel they've drifted apart, but they're still obviously thrilled to see each other at [[spoiler: William's wedding.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Martine.
** Wendy has some elements of this as well.
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Most prominently Anne-Sophie, but Wendy as well.]]
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