Even though this film was made in 2002, L’Auberge Espagnole already feels a bit dated regarding film quality and the attempt at an alternative narrative structure that is mostly dropped until the end sequence except for one dynamic and brilliant sequence showing a group of people trying to hide a friend’s infidelity. It has an emotional authenticity for anyone who has been thrown into a situation away from parents and have to live away from home and with a number of people from different backgrounds but the same age. It has a sense of realism without the silly frat boy hijinks of its American teen counterparts, but because it is European, average American viewer may be shocked by sexual situations, which are not excessive or very explicit, but free of American mores.