Hey, how does a French movie, set in Spain, that tells the story of college students from all over Europe sharing an apartment grab you? As irresistible? Me too.

The film follows Xavier, a French student of Spanish, as he moves to Barcelona to learn the language as part of the Erasmus exchange program. Along the way he finds himself in a house with fellow students from Germany, England, Spain, and the Netherlands.

Together they have good times and bad, and while the movie works fine on its own, it particularly resonated with me — not just because I recognized some parts of Barcelona that I had visited, but also because I thoroughly enjoyed my own time living with several other people whose accents were drastically different from my own.

Basically the whole thing made me want to go back to Europe. Like, right now. (Oh, and note to subtitle-phobes: 1) Get over it — there’s tons of good stuff out there that’s not in English. 2) This movie is a good place to start; fair-sized pieces of it are in English, so you don’t spend the entire time reading.)

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