2 Days in Paris (Deux jours à Paris)

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2 Days in Paris (Deux jours à Paris)

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Adam Goldberg, Adan Jodorowsky, Albert Delpy, Daniel Brühl, Julie Delpy

Marion (Delpy) and Jack (Goldberg) try to rekindle their relationship with a visit to Paris, home of Marion's parents -- and several of her ex-boyfriends.

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  • nannalauren
    December 22, 2008
    nannalauren
    Hilarious. Relationship humor, awkward social situation humor, culture clash humor, and dirty french humor. Fun for the whole family.
  • EarthlyAlien
    August 22, 2008
    EarthlyAlien
    "It always fascinated me how people go from loving you madly to nothing at all, nothing. It hurts so much. When I feel someone is going to leave me, I have a tendency to break up first before I get to hear the whole thing. Here it is. One more, one less. Another wasted love st...( read more)ory. I really love this one. When I think that its over, that I'll never see him again like this... well yes, I'll bump into him, we'll meet our new boyfriend and girlfriend, act as if we had never been together, then we'll slowly think of each other less and less until we forget each other completely. Almost. Always the same for me. Break up, break down. Drunk up, fool around. Meet one guy, then another, fuck around. Forget the one and only. Then after a few months of total emptiness start again to look for true love, desperately look everywhere and after two years of loneliness meet a new love and swear it is the one, until that one is gone as well. There's a moment in life where you can't recover any more from another break-up. And even if this person bugs you sixty percent of the time, well you still can?t live without him. And even if he wakes you up every day by sneezing right in your face, well you love his sneezes more than anyone else's kisses."

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    It was always quite obvious to me that Julie Delpy was destined to be more than just an actress. I mean, you just have to look at her to know that she's always been a deeply imaginative and creative person. Whenever I see her in a film, I can't help it, I see Celine. Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise is and will always be one of the most important and life-changing films for me. I still remember going to school the day after I first saw it - in like the 6th or 7th grade - and feeling completely unable to think of anything else. Literally. Then, the same happened with Waking Life and Before Sunrise three years ago. I've always seen those three (Delpy, Linklater and Ethan Hawke) like this unusually creative and neurotic trio that I would do anything to meet and talk to. 2 Days in Paris is the confirmation of my suspicions: that we've won a new, smart and perceptive filmmaker called Julie Delpy.

    At times, 2 Days in Paris felt like a lighter, funnier version of Linklater's Before Surise/Sunset. Which, coming from me, is the best way I can think of to externalize how much I enjoyed it. Completely character-driven, with smart and funny (and I mean, REALLY funny, like in hilarious-funny) dialogue that flow as naturally as the River Seine, Delpy's writting is as sharp as a knife, intelligent and in more than one occasion, brilliant.

    When we look at Delpy's script, we imagine that this story could very well have happened to her. She plays Marion, a French photographer who lives in NYC with her boyfriend, Jack (Adam Goldberg), a neurotic, hypochondriac American interior designer. They try to revive their 2-year romance with a European holiday (cliché #1). Venice is a disaster when Jack goes down with gastroenteritis and they stop over in Paris for two days. What was supposed to be a relaxing couple of days before heading home to New York ends up being two unexpected, hilarious, conflict-filled days.

    One of the purposes for this 2-day stop was for Jack to meet Marion's eccentric family - wonderfully played by Delpy's real-life mother (Marie Pillet), father (Albert Delpy) and sister (Aleksia Landeau) - whose presence truly lift the film. The other was for them to pick up their cat, the adorable and overweighted Jean-Luc, who is also a scene stealer himself.

    The cultural contrasts are the highlight of 2 Days in Paris. Jack's surprise/shock to see that Marion remains friends with most of her ex's and talks about everything with her parents, or his fear of talking the subway... he feels like a fish-out-of water. Anyone who has experienced both cultures - European and American - will understand the humour and the irony of those situations, in a laugh-out-loud way in some occasions. I found this aspect of the film more interesting and funny than the Woody Allen-esque relationships study that Delpy often found more important. The last third of the film is definitely the weakest, and the main reason this rating isn't more stretched, when it becomes a more typical romantic comedy. Which is everything the film isn't in the first two.

    There's an enchanting quirkiness about 2 Days in Paris, which is almost entirely due to Julie Delpy. Her character is one moment an innocent, quirky girl and the next a French femme fatal. It helps that Goldberg is as good as he's ever been, playing a modern-day Woody Allen. A neurotic, compulsive smoker, kind of geeky New Yorker who speaks really fast, loves sarcasm and is aware of the real reasons why the world hates his country. The kind of American we all love, basically. There's also a delightful, priceless cameo by Daniel Brühl as a gay-like veggie who claims he's a fairy and who's been on a mission to burn down fast food restaurants in Paris. Then there's the always-fun film references - like Fritz Lang's M and Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, or Godard's Masculine-Feminine, a more subtle and hidden one - that come across as lovely tributes from one film buff to others.

    The fact that the film has an obvious autobiographical feel to it will, although I don't like to put things this simplistically, prevent those who don't like Julie Delpy from enjoying the film. Those who do like her, on the other hand, will be delighted. Her approach and opinion on certain subjects will make many people call her (and her film) things like pretentious, self-absorbed, self-righteous, self-indulgent and other self's... when all she's doing, really, is showing how she sees things. How she sees the world and, of course, being a sort of romantic comedy, relationships and love. The rest, those who encourage creativity, will have a blast watching this film. I know I did, three times so far.

    Many will see flaws and more flaws in 2 Days in Paris before seeing its qualities. That's OK, they always do. I suppose they've all written, directed, edited and composed the music for a film too... It has its flaws, yes, like any film made in History. It isn't a cinematic masterpiece, no. But it's also an extremely clever, enjoyable and fun film to watch. The kind of film I see myself making someday, actually. Fingers crossed.
  • puffchunk
    May 15, 2008
    puffchunk
    Smart movie about relationships vs. cultural differences. At first you hate the characters, but by the end you kinda feel like you are them.
  • StaisilD
    April 22, 2008
    StaisilD
    '2 days in Paris' tells the story of a couple two years into their relationship and two days away from breaking up during the last leg of their romantic European vacation. Having visited Venice, Marion (Julie Delpy) and Jack (Adam Goldberg) decide to spend two days with Marion's ...( read more)parents in her childhood home in Paris before heading home to New York. The film portrays the slow unraveling of Jack and Marion's relationship which, as Marion reveals through her sometime narration, has started to show a few cracks before the events that unfurl in Paris. Jack is a neurotic hypochondriac and very competitive; his insistence on being chief photographer during the holiday gets on Marion's nerves, since she is a professional photographer. But the couple's real problems lie in Jack's jealous streak and Marion's white lies regarding her past relationships which come back to haunt her as Jack is introduced to old friends, old lovers and what he perceives to be Marion's very European and bizarre Laissez-faire attitude toward sex and relationships. Adam Goldberg is compelling as the sarcastic yet witty American boyfriend visiting Paris for the first time with his girlfriend. What follows is a series of hugely entertaining misunderstandings involving cross cultural differences, hilarious conversations in broken French with family members and a series of unplanned rendezvous with former lovers all of which combine to drive him high up the paranoia ladder. Delpy is a little bland and typical in the role, it's not as though its a real stretch for her ? but the chemistry between her and real life ex boyfriend, Goldberg is genuine and although its clear Marion and Jack are a train wreck, you cant help but root for them. German heart-throb Daniel Bruhl also stars for a worthless few minutes. It was a good film.
  • habitualdamnation
    April 6, 2008
    habitualdamnation
    Julie Delpy is a bitch in person, isn't she? Thoroughly disapprove of her character and thoroughly feel for Adam Goldberg's. I guess this is how cross cultural relationships are. This movie has not made me any more sympathetic towards Parisians, which is what I gath...( read more)er it intended to do.
  • closedmouth
    November 8, 2009
    closedmouth
    Great fun, very funny and with an energy that doesn't let up. Delpy is obviously channelling Woody, and although she doesn't have the stream-of-conscious fluidity that he has, she manages to imbue the film with a charming naturalism that pretty much won me over from the beginning...( read more). Loved it.
  • aniacel
    October 31, 2009
    aniacel
    sweet and really funny
  • r0b3rt2
    October 21, 2009
    r0b3rt2
    witty fast dialogs. Love Julie Delpy <3
  • gultenreiz
    October 16, 2009
    gultenreiz
    Can a visit to one parents have unpleasant consequences on an already strain relationship? Sure, more so if there some hostility trying to burts out from both of the partners. But this is not a drama, not really, I saw as a hilarious movie, not really a comedy either. The humor c...( read more)omes from the cultural differences and clever lines.
    The movie reminded me a lot of" Before sunset", which I saw a while ago and liked a lot, mostly the dialog is more or less on the same note, the reason beeing that Julie Delpy was a writer on both occasions, and in this case she's also the director.
    The reason for seeing this movie was Daniel Bruhl, he was on the screen maybe 5 minutes, but at some point that didn't matter, because I was enjoying this so much and laughing out loud, and thats really an acomplishment for any movie as far as I am concerned.
  • aznv
    October 15, 2009
    aznv
    I SAW JULIE IN A FILM WITH ERIC STOLZ AND SHE WAS TERRIFIC, I NEVER SAW HER BEFOR, WHAT GREAT LITHE BOD, SHE WILL BE GREAT IN YRS 2 COME
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