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L'Auberge espagnole - European Youth on Film (Hardcover)
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L'Auberge espagnole - European Youth on Film (Hardcover)
Series: Cinema and Youth Cultures
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Part romantic comedy, part sitcom, part social drama, L'Auberge
espagnole (The Spanish Apartment) recounts a familiar 'youth'
ritual - the move from university to 'the real world', the often
complicated personal, romantic and cultural encounters that ensue,
and the moral uncertainties that characterize that key biological
and physiological developmental stage between adolescence and
adulthood. French director Cedric Klapisch showcases the
extraordinary colour and beauty of Barcelona's architecture, and
places his hero Xavier at the heart of this smartly written film,
which makes a series of wry observations on educational exchange
programmes, multi-culturalism, and the direction European youth
might take in the twenty-first century. This book addresses the
topic of Europe's youth generation, paying particular attention to
the ways in which the film depicts the transition from adolescence
to adulthood as allegory for the experiences of European society as
it moves through periods of readjustment towards uncertain futures.
It also looks into the ecosystem of contemporary French cinema, the
Erasmus programme and its influence on youth experience, and
identity politics in relation to 'nationhood' and 'European-ness'.
The book also examines the two sequels to the film - Russian Dolls
(2005) and Chinese Puzzle (2013) - and how the complications faced
by the main characters across the trilogy suggest that the move to
adulthood is a never-ending process of growing up and reaching a
level of self-actualization.
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