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L'Auberge Espagnole is a 2002 French film directed and written by Cédric Klapisch. It is about Xavier, an Economics graduate student studying for a year in Barcelona, where he encounters and learns from a group of students that are from all over Western Europe. The group is not only diverse in the sense of nationality, but also in sexuality {Wendy (Reilly)}.

The title of the film literally means "the Spanish hostel", and is a French expression meaning something out of which one gets what one puts in; it is sometimes also used to mean a busy, chaotic place. The English title of the film is — "Madhouse".

The film's portrayal is in the first-person perspective of the main-character Xavier, and is hence mainly narrated in French. Most of the dialogue is in English however, though a significant amount is in Spanish, as well as small amounts in Catalan, Danish, German and Italian.

The marketing for the film tends to focus on Audrey Tautou, despite the fact that she only plays a relatively small supporting role in the film.

The movie has a sequel of sorts,