Russian Dolls (film)

Russian Dolls (French: Les Poupées russes) is a 2005 romantic comedy-drama film, the sequel to L'Auberge Espagnole (2002) and the second instalment in the Spanish Apartment trilogy, which is concluded with Chinese Puzzle (Casse-tête chinois, 2013).

Cédric Klapisch wrote and directed the film, whose settings include Paris, London, Saint Petersburg and Moscow.

[3] The film begins with friends from L'Auberge espagnole meeting in Saint Petersburg at the wedding of Wendy's brother, William.

For financial reasons, Xavier becomes a writer for pulp romantic novels and a ghostwriter, writing the autobiographies of celebrities.

Xavier is given the chance to ghost write an autobiography of Celia Shelburn, a successful young model, whom he visits on a number of occasions.

Xavier subsequently returns to St. Petersburg but finds that Wendy is avoiding him as she is convinced that he had an affair while in Moscow.

Towards the end of the film, the scene returns to William and Natasha marrying in front of family members and the characters introduced in L'Auberge Espagnole.

The film was generally received well by critics, with a 72% fresh rating by the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 67 from Metacritic.