L’Auberge espagnole

SPOILERS AHEAD.

Great flick. Can’t begin to put into words what an amazing number of buttons it has touched.

Just so that I don’t forget:

  • The creative imperative: a writer
  • Living arrangements: shared housing
  • The foreign culture syndrome: frenchman living in Barcelona
  • Life, ordinary life that is, coming at us. Fast!
  • The call of the night: “bares the tapas” in Spain
  • Our relationship to our parents
  • The search for love (in all the wrong places)

Plus, count them: three, instances of Radiohead’s No Surprises, all used at the perfect time. Let’s see, what did I actually think of all of this?
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