Erasmo in un appartamento spagnolo: e se fossero già nati gli europei?

Erasmus in a Spanish flat: is there yet a new European generation?
L’Auberge espagnol is a movie directed by Cédric Klapisch in 2002. It represents the story of Xavier, a french economics student in his twenties, who signs on to a European exchange program in order to gain working knowledge of the Spanish language. Promising that they’ll remain close, he says farewell to his loving girlfriend, then heads to Barcelona. Following his arrival, Xavier is soon thrust into a cultural melting pot when he moves into an apartment full of international students. An Italian, an English girl, a boy from Denmark, a young woman from Belgium, a German and a girl from Tarragona all join him in a series of adventures that serve as an initiation to life. The story of this Spanish flat reveals emotions and feelings of a new generation of authentic European citizens which maintains national diversity while generating a common attitude towards social life. The movie is a sort of paradigm of a new generation which has already started thinking as a European generation.