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Pot Luck [2002]
from Cinefile
starring Romain Duris, Judith Godreche, Audrey Tautou, Cecile De France, Kelly Reilly
directed by Cedric Klapisch

Features:

• PAL
• Widescreen

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Just say 'non'
  Oh my God, I loathed this film. It's the celluloid equivalent of a French exchange student in stone-washed jeans and slip-on shoes, carrying a really big, brightly coloured rucksack, and there wasn't a single character that I didn't want to punch in the head.
  On some spurious pretext, a young French student (who has all the charm - and the hairstyle - of a Young Conservative party member) jets off to Barcelona for a year long ERASMUS scheme, where he flatshares with a mixed bag of Europeans - enough... more info

• L'Auberge espagnole - the soup of life
  I bought this DVD on whim but I was both very pleasantly and overwhelmingly surprised. Fast paced, funny and not boring for even a second this film is well acted by its young cast and thus the story is made very believable.
  Narrated in the first person by Xavier, an Economics graduate student preparing for a life of bureaucracy, by going studying for a year in Barcelona to learn Spanish.He becomes part of the Erasmus programme with unexpected encounters and consequences - in a flatshare of students who... more info

• Learning Spanish in Barcelona? How about Catalan?
  I have watched the film and as a British citizen of Catalan origins I could not believe what I saw!
  The film shamelessly portrays a film where almost everything is Spanish.
  Yes, Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia, a nation repressed by Spain for almost 3 centuries now but Catalan is still the official and proper language of Catalonia and it feels like an insult or the result of a badly researched film that someone goes to Barcelona to learn Spanish.
  It would have been more realistic if... more info

• This one stays with you
  I can't say enough about how good this film was but what got me thinking afterwards, apart from what others have said, was how different this would have been as an American production. I know it's easy to dump on Hollywood but I could see this becoming "Friends in Barcelona" in the wrong hands, ie. everyone has a screamingly funny comment or is really "out there". Instead, you get really natural characters maybe a bit on the unusual side but very believable and finally, totally engaging. I felt something... more info

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