SCHOOL DAYS.('L'Auberge Espagnole' and 'The Shape of Things')(Movie Review)

C?dric Klapisch, the talented director of "When the Cat's Away,"wrote his new picture, "L'Auberge Espagnole,"in less than two weeks, cast it on the fly in different European cities, and shot it in Barcelona with a lightweight digital camera. "L'Auberge Espagnole"is a discursive, sketchbook movie about a twenty-five-year-old Parisian graduate student, Xavier (Romain Duris), who goes to Spain on an exchange program and lives with a polyglot mix of students in a cramped walkup apartment. Lousy with books, magazines, clothes, and a variety of unspeakable leftovers, rudely crammed into the fridge, the apartment is, understandably, a mess. Xavier's father is a businessman, his ...