L'Auberge espagnole by Ben McCann

Author:Ben McCann [McCann, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Media Studies
ISBN: 9781317189244
Google: gX1aDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-11T03:38:16+00:00

Notes

1 In 1996, Klapisch had written an open letter to the French cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles criticizing the New Wave as ‘not being new anymore’.

2 In Transit featured an appearance by future American independent director Todd Solondz.

3 In 2014, Klapisch exhibited at Galerie Cinéma in Paris a series of photographs of Paris and New York he took while on preproduction for Chinese Puzzle. The gallery’s press release stated that the photographs serve as a ‘visual logbook’ for Klapisch, inspiring ideas for his screenplays.

4 The transformative potential of the Erasmus scheme has also been endorsed by the Italian novelist and scholar Umberto Eco: ‘I call it a sexual revolution: a young Catalan man meets a Flemish girl – they fall in love, they get married and they become European, as do their children. The Erasmus idea should be compulsory – not just for students, but also for taxi drivers, plumbers and other workers’ (quoted in Riotta 2012).

5 Chris Green concluded in The Independent that ‘young people searching for the partner of their dreams could do a lot worse than enrolling in the European Union’s educational exchange programme’ (2014).

6 The Spanish Apartment is set before the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, the largest single expansion of the EU to date, which saw the accession of Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Today, European students may travel to and from these additional countries.

7 In 1987, 3,244 students enrolled in the scheme. In 2014, that number had reached 272,497. See ‘Erasmus: Facts, Figures and Trends’ (European Commission, 2015).

8 This lack of focus on Erasmus as an actual educational exchange is part of an ongoing discourse about the relevance and function of the scheme. For many critics, Erasmus has little to do with studying and engaging with local students/citizens. Instead it has become ‘an EU-subsidized party in a foreign country’. See Viktor Gronne and Dalia Miklaseviciute (2014).

9 Tautou in particular found this fragmented process frustrating: ‘in the screenplay, the only thing that was written about her character for this particular scene, was “she hates the world and the world hates her”’ (Klapisch 2017).

10 While he was an art student in Paris, Duris was spotted in the street by a casting director.

11 The cycle comprises of four feature films – Les 400 coups/The 400 Blows, Baisers volés/Stolen Kisses (1968), Domicile conjugal/Bed and Board (1970) and L’amour en fuite/Love on the Run (1979) – and the 1962 short Antoine and Colette. Many of the interviews with Klapisch and the reviews of The Spanish Apartment included in the bibliography explicitly reference the Truffaut-Léaud connection. Stephen Holden (2006) in the New York Times called Klapisch ‘Truffaut Lite’.

12 Rouyer and Vassé (2005) note that many of Duris’s subsequent film roles after Good Old Daze emphasize his youthfulness and dramatize his (often fraught) transition to manhood.

13 When Catherine Shoard (2010) interviewed Duris, she was struck by Duris’s ‘completely transformative smile, capable of changing his face in the flick of a lip: from sexy to silly, brooding to buffoonish’.

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