The potluck

the Potluck is a film hispano - French carried out by Cédric Klapisch, left in 2002.

Synopsis

Xavier (Romain Duris), studying in Economic scenes, dream to be a writer. But its destiny seems to be to integrate the ministry for Finances thanks to a friend of its father, who advises to him to go to live one year in Spain, in order to acquire a specificity which will support its recruiting. It thus decides to make one year of studies to Barcelona thanks to the program Erasmus.

Far from his girlfriend Martine (Audrey Tautou), it is found to divide in Colocation an apartment with other foreign students (a Belgian, a German, English, a Dane…). Between expatriation, cultural shock, difficulty of the language (the courses are in Catalan whereas abroad one learns the Castillan), it starts to be integrated while benefitting from its life of student.

Comments

  • This film was turned with a numeric camera, which gives a flexibility of assembly largely exploited by Cédric Klapisch, as well as a side “video amateur” who corresponds perfectly to environment. The scenes are held as the memories which one has when a photo album is looked at, with a certain chronological order but of many digressions and comments. It is a kind of “film brain”: a " truth bordel" , just like Xavier thinks of being, but who leaves a place, to return to same… the
To note the recurring use of the screen splity (screen cut in several parts) adapted to the situations utilizing several characters in different places.

Distribution

Band-original

  • Generic of Kouz-1 feat. Ardag
  • El Timbre No funciona Kouz-1
  • will cocinera It of Mala Rodriguez
  • Have of Ali Farka Touré
  • Betece of Africando All Stars
  • Reino de Silia of Vicente Amigo
  • Waltz COp 64 n°2 in c-sharp minor of Surprised Frederic Chopin by Arthur Rubinstein
  • No of Radiohead
  • Aerodynamic of Daft Punk
  • Cambia emptied it Ardag
  • That viva the noche of Sonia & Selena
  • the dream of the Hippocampus of Kouz-1

Certain musics do not appear on the original soundtrack although it are in film, like No Woman No Cry of Bob Marley (played by a character of film) or the Te Deum of Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

Around film

Rewards

Nominations

Catalog of films Life of Xavier

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Card IMDb

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