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Corporal Canuck · 01-05-2005, 06:37 PM

hola todos!
I just watched a great French/Spanish film called "l'auberge espagnole" (Audrey Tautou has a small role but i don't recognize the rest of the cast - they're all brilliant though). It's about seven uni students from all over europe sharing an apartment in Barcelona for a year. Granted it's not about backpacking per se, but it is about packing your stuff and ditching the 9 to 5 world to experience new things and make new friends in a different country with a different language. To me this is the essence of backpacking so i especially enjoyed that aspect of "l'auberge" and i bet many of you will too.

Any way I mention it cuz i wanna know if any of you have any films in this vein you'd like to reccomend.

BTW "l'auberge" is mostly in french with some spanish so if you don't understand these be sure to get a subtitled version (not dubbed uuugh!)

Thanks in advance,
cpl

**ChasinJason1313** · 01-05-2005, 06:41 PM

Not totally about travelling but a great film and funny: Roman Holiday

**TimmyJames1976** · 01-05-2005, 07:55 PM

Roman Holiday? Audrey Hepburn? Oh how I love her!!!!

I need to find me a girl that her in a time like this

**kyle j** · 01-05-2005, 10:23 PM

Eurotrip is the greatest travel movie of all time without a doubt, the part when matt damon is rocking out , god I laugh my ass off everytime, plus its got some hot chicks getting naked.

**bellelass** · 01-06-2005, 08:40 AM

Roman Holiday is awesome!

Eurotrip is hilarious. The best part is, shit like that happens. Well, maybe not being taken for the pope, but others. Like dirty sex acts in alleys, etc. hehe. Right? B)

Ryder · 01-06-2005, 09:18 AM

I rented L'Auberge Espagnole last February, seen it like 15 times now, haha I just bought it last week!!! It is the best movie ever!!

**omisan** · 01-06-2005, 10:19 AM

I absolutely loooove L'auberge Espagnole. 'Course, on the sillier side of things, there's National Lampoon's European Vacation. Classic!!

**ChasinJason1313** · 01-06-2005, 06:16 PM

they could make "National Lampoon's: Trip to the Morgue" and it'd be funny, I love that stuff. Has anyone ever seen Vegas vacation?? When he loses all his money and has to gamble at that bootleg casino with games like "guess which hand" and "Pick a number between 1 and 10." Oh my God, that is the best!!

**TimmyJames1976** · 01-06-2005, 06:20 PM

just saw eurotrip...funny as hell, only thing is, the hero looked/sounded identical to my old college bud, so that was distracting

**my retro career** · 01-07-2005, 08:18 AM

Eurotrip is a total blast - so many funny parts, but one that I really like is that guy in the train..!

**TimmyJames1976** · 01-07-2005, 08:22 AM

HA...i forgot about that part

**my retro career** · 01-07-2005, 08:29 AM

There's a travel-related backpacker movie that I really really really really love:

It's a very simple storyline about an Englishwoman and her daughters escaping life in England and moved to Morocco, and their daily adventures there.

This film is wonderful in so many aspects. One is because it simply tells the story of one's life journey in everyday life routine - without the Hollywood melodrama.

Instead, throughout the movie the viewer (i.e. ME) constantly senses an element of potential danger in her lifestyle but without overcooking it, from a director's point of view...if you can get my drift...

It could be said that if one were to film our life's experiences while travelling/living abroad, the film can be very similar to this movie's theme.

**my retro career** · 01-07-2005, 08:43 AM

And this could very likely be a backpacker's favourite movie (AND book):

May all the devastated souls rest in peace on Phi Phi Island...

wong name · 01-07-2005, 08:44 AM

a good travel movie ---but a chick flick is chasing liberty with mandy moore------shes the presidents daughter and she trys to escape all over europe < its a feel good movie> with her final destination in berlin to get to the love parade.

**MolsonGirl** · 01-07-2005, 06:24 PM

I finally saw chasing liberty the other day (not that I was desperate to see it) but overall I thought it was kinda cool.

LOVE the beach.
LOVE National Lampoons EU Vaca

I liked Brokedown Palace but it really scared me in terms of travelling to Thailand, but I got over that when I realized that could happen in any country.

new_pasique · 01-07-2005, 10:44 PM

Yeah, EUROTRIP ! truly a journey in backpacker's style.. love it!

Chasing Liberty's quite good, IF only mandy moore's not in it. hate her!

**ScarlotteDorian** · 01-07-2005, 11:07 PM

hideous kinky was awesome...definetly loved that one!

Corporal Canuck · 01-10-2005, 07:56 PM

just watched eurotrip. the fight with the parisian robot almost made me crap myself

wong name · 01-20-2005, 07:00 PM

the bourne identity one and two ----------there both kinda travel movies all over europe----

little bloody and violent...........which i like............

**Joker** · 01-20-2005, 10:58 PM

Travel movies and nobody mentions "Monty Python and the Holy Grail?" S

Shit, folks, they travel all over Britain looking for the bloody thing, from the mud harvesting fields, through bucolic towns, enchanted woods filled with Knights Who Say Ni, the Swamp Castle, the Bridge of Death, Castle Anthrax, the cottage of the old man in scene 24, to the Castle Auuuuuuggggggghhhhhh, which I think is somewhere in France...

:D