cedric klapisch movie lauberge espagnole be easy and breezy charm wrap in nostalgia for our young year and attractive youth . at it core and it the feature length presentation of the long running mtv reality soap opera know a the real world in which and a it motto go represent this be the true story of seven stranger pick to live in a house and have their life tap . so watch what happen when people stop be polite and start get real . this be exactly what happen minus the camera plant at every minuscule corner of the house in barcelona and spain and where xavier ( romain duris ) come to stay and have to learn spanish to fill into his job requirement . an outsider in many way and he slowly form a camaraderie with his house mate who come from all corner of europe except america . this be a movie in which the only american show be an unlikable character with whom wendy ( the adorable kelly reilly ) be have an affair with ( only for sex and she confess and since she have her own boyfriend who make a late but dazed appearance . ) . throughout his stay there and he try to maintain a long distance relationship with his girlfriend play by audrey tautou while he begin a tentative flirtation with the wife of the owner of the spanish house where he be stay at and get some advice from a lesbian house mate ( cecile de france ) a to how to seduce a woman . a sweet little feature that present a moment in time that twenty somethings will never see again and lauberge espagnole be forgettable fun contain within itself the threshold into the real world experience through xavier eye .