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Two Days In Paris [2007]
from Universal Pictures UK
starring Adam Goldberg, Julie Delpy
directed by Julie Delpy

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

Julie Delpy, as well as a being a beautiful and talented actress, is a woman of many talents. Want the proof? Then Two Days In Paris, a warm and distinctly European-feel comedy that she also scripted and directed, is a terrific piece of evidence. It’s one of 2007’s most engaging surprises, too.

Delpy previously co-scripted the wonderful Before Sunset, and Two Days In Paris has a similar feel. The film follows Delpy’s Marion and Adam Goldberg’s Jack as they spend time in the French capital, dealing with the assortment of issues and scenarios it throws up. Given that Marion is French and Jack is American, there are cultural issues that are explored. Yet it’s a character piece at heart, and that’s where the film’s strength lies.

Because the treat with Two Days In Paris is the quality of writing. With dialogue crucial to the film’s success, Delpy’s script generates engaging conversations and characters well worth spending time with. The film itself doesn’t quite scale the heights of the aforementioned Before Sunset, but it’s the film that comes the closest since to doing so.

So if you fancy something a little off the beaten track, where character is crucial, the music is grand and the film never takes a cheap shot, then treat yourself to Two Days In Paris. And keep your eye on Julie Delpy; whether in front of or behind the camera, this is a woman with plenty to offer. --Jon Foster

Julie Delpy's breezily hilarious feature follows French-born Marion (Delpy) and Jack (Adam Goldberg), her American boyfriend (of two years), on a two-day stop through Paris, where Marion has purchased a tiny apartment one floor up from her rowdy, eccentric parents (played with great ability by Delpy's actual parents). Just passing through after an Italian getaway, the lovebirds are unprepared for the many relationship tests soon thrown their way in the notoriously romantic city. Avoiding the metro on account of Jack's terrorism fears, the couple treks about the city by foot and cabs, getting into several vicious brawls with French cabbies, waiters, and a string of men from Marion’s past. When Jack discovers how many of Marion's so called 'friends' she used to be intimate with, the trip becomes overshadowed by paranoia. This suspicion would be easy to brush off if only Jack spoke the language, or if all of Marion's exes didn't insist on multiplying.
Delpy, who penned, directed, and stars in the feature, has created a truly charming film. Thanks to clever writing and great chemistry, Delpy and Goldberg's onscreen relationship feels completely natural and genuine. Delpy saves her characters from being too precious by balancing their entertaining dialogue with human flaws. Though a story with this premise could easily veer off into a typical culture clash comedy, 2 Days in Paris moves past that to explore the problems of relationships at large in a lyrical way. While in the same general vein of the classic talk-heavy Richard Linklater film Before Sunrise, 2 Days in Paris has more in common with the film's sombre 2004 sequel, Before Sunset (which Delpy co-wrote). That said, the film counters its thoughtful scenes with lighthearted ones, so it never becomes contrived or bogged down. Like Before Sunset , 2 Days in Paris leads up to a whimsical conclusion which is beautiful in its simplicity. The film pulls off what Marion, a photographer, struggles with throughout, torn between the compulsion to capture a moment on film while desiring to be really in the moment itself.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• interesting and funny throughout its duration but fairly crude and vulgar too
  In this humorous story in which Julie Delpy bumps into one old boyfriend after another and Adam Goldberg looks progressively more exasperated and shocked you get to see a lot of Paris and hear a lot of political opinions and heated arguments.The dialogue switches from english to french a lot - which can be annoying - and so if you are looking for a film to chill out to then this is not the one for you.Not suitable for people 15 years and under - lots of swearing and some visual sexual content too.Are the... more info

• Hilarious! But maybe not for the easily offended...
  
  I have a perverse sense of humour anyway, which is probably why I disagree with all the negative reviews about this film being 'filthy' 'shocking' etc etc. I found it extremely funny!
  If you're after something like 'Sleepless in Seattle' - forget it!!
  If you're after blunt, crude and cringey - then get it!
  Okay, so Adam Goldberg plays Jack, a negative ever-whining hypochondriac who (as part of a European tour), stops off in Paris for 2 days with his girlfriend, Marion (Julie Delpy.}... more info

• Disappointing
  I did actually make it all the way through the film but more from morbid curiousity that any interest in the weak story line or characterisation.
  Unlike sunrise / sunset this film lacks a male lead that the watcher is in any way able to relate to or sympathise with. The format seemed to be aiming at the same market but it failed completely. Julie Delphy (beautiful and intelligent as always) does not come across to the audience as I believe she intended to. The obvious end where she walks away from the... more info

• Annoying Film
  I found this film to be particularly irritating and vacuous.It follows the lives of two liberal, semi bohemian kooks passing a few days in Paris after a trip to Italy before returning to their home in New York. This couple are particularly unlikeable and unfunny. At no stage in "Two Days In Paris" did I raise a smile at any of the tedious dialogue or wacky characters. There's no plot to the film and there's little of Paris to be seen in it. A charming, hilarious film ? Not.

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