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Sunday, May 18, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:22 PM:
Saw L'Auberge espagnole, sometimes billed as the new Audrey Tatou movie. She does have a fairly important second-tier role, but in a side plot. This means, of course, that the film cannot achieve the charm of a genuine Audrey Tatou movie, but to be fair, not all movies starring her do either.L'Auberge espagnole is, nonetheless, a pretty good film, sort of like The Graduate meets Barcelona, only it's entertaining. And it's in French, Spanish and English. Its subject is a young Frenchman who goes to Spain for a year to learn Spanish and Spanish economics in order to get a job in the burgeoning industry of European government. The film is about the year in Spain and the wacky (and ordinary but somehow wacky even so) people he meets, hangs out with and lives with.
I won't give plot details, but I do want to mention the closing montage. Having lived with a variety of nationalities (English, Italian, Spanish...), he's feeling truly European, and so we get what sounds like a hokey commercial for European unity.
I am French. But I am also Spanish. I am German. I am Danish... I am Europe...
(and the punchline)
I'm a complete mess!
It's "Je suis un bordel" in French. Seems fitting to me, though the EU dreamers probably aren't happy.
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