The Spanish Inn: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"I'm like Europe, I'm a real mess!"''}}

 

 

Xavier is a Parisian graduate student who needs to earn a degree in Spanish in order to get a cushy job at the Finance Ministry. He applies to the [http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc80_en.htm ERASMUS] exchange program, and arrives in Barcelona. With no place to go, he crashes on the sofa of a couple he met in the plane, but eventually finds an apartment, a cramped and messy flat shared by a bunch of foreign students.

 

 

A sequel, ''The Russian Dolls'', was made in 2005, and shows how Xavier and his former flatmates have turned out five years later.

 

 

* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Wendy's brother William is a loutish oaf who gets on everyone's nerves. In the sequel he is somewhat better.

* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Xavier in the sequel, sort of. He does have a REALLY hairy chest though.

* [[Better as Friends]]: Isabelle and Xavier.

{{quote|'''Isabelle:''' ''"Pity you aren't a girl!"''}}

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Understanding French ''and'' Spanish helps.

** If you can't tell the difference between Spanish and Catalan, the scene where Isabelle asks to her professor to teach in Spanish rather than Catalan may be, well, weird.

* [[Embarrassing Cover Up]]: {{spoiler|William rescues his sister by pretending [[Ho Yay|he was the one in bed with her lover]] when her regular boyfriend shows up without notice.}}

* [[Everybody Smokes]]: Pretty much. And spliffs at least as often as cigarettes, too.

* [[Friends Rent Control]]: Averted. It's precisely because none of them could afford to live on their own that the students share the flat.

* [[Friendship Moment]]: All the tenants scramble to {{spoiler|prevent Wendy's boyfriend from finding out she's in bed with another guy.}}

 

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