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Bookmark this pagePot Luck (2002)
Director: Cédric Klapisch
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From Time Out Film Guide
Xavier (Duris) spends his final year as a student at a college in Barcelona. He's melancholy about the girl he left behind, anxious about the married woman he takes up with in Spain - familiar stuff, though attractively presented (shot on high-definition video). But the emphasis is on life at the flat Xavier shares with seven other students, each from a different European country: learning to tolerate one another's foibles, helping each other in a crisis, etc. In this metaphor it's no surprise that Wendy the Brit goes to bed with an American and Xavier the Frenchman is enraged about it. But this is an astonishingly good-natured movie, and when Xavier takes stock of what he's learned only hardcore nationalists will fail to be moved by his passionate assertion of a European identity - 'Je suis français... espagnol... anglais... italien...'Author: BBa
Cast & crew
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Producer: Bruno Lévy
Cast: Romain Duris, Judith Godrèche, Audrey Tautou, Cécile de France, Kelly Reilly, Cristina Brondo, Kevin Bishop, Federico d'Anna, Christian Pagh, Cédric Klapisch full cast
Duration: 122 mins
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