So much fun it’s easy to believe the film was made up in bits and pieces by the director following actors and locations as source material, after the director visited his sister in a Spanish apartment while she was an Erasmus student. Real life infected him with the seed of an idea for a film that celebrated the Euro pudding – that blend of nationalities that defines Europe. To his credit, Cedric Klapisch kept a reasonably firm hand on the script, in that he didn’t allow himself to be seduced by the loose lifestyle to such an extent that the drama seeped out of his screenplay.
A dazzling whirl of spontaneity: a warm and funny glimpse of life after take-off. — Andrew L. Urban