L’Auberge Espagnole (2002) could be the official film of the international student exchange program. French filmmaker Cedric Klapisch takes the old clichés of culture clash, college roommate chaos, and a young adult’s education outside the confines of the classroom and turns it into vision of the then-new European Union as communal household. Xavier (Romain Duris), […]
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‘The New Girlfriend’ from France on Amazon Prime
The New Girlfriend (France, 2015) of François Ozon’s comic drama isn’t what you might expect. Mourning the sudden death of his young wife (played by Isild Le Besco in flashbacks), widower David (Romain Duris) calms himself and his infant son by dressing in his wife’s clothes. It shocks his wife’s best friend Claire (Anaïs Demoustier), […]