2 Days in Paris (2007)

Wonderful Movie

best movie i've ever seen.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

"It's so ugly when you speak French!" (Marion / Julie Delpy)2 Days in Paris is a funny and surprising film written, directed, edited, and starred by the talented Julie Delpy. It has a taste of Woody Allen and a taste of European films.The film was nominated for a César award for Best Original Screenplay (Meilleur scénario original). The script is brilliant indeed.Julie's real parents play Marion's parents. The father is hilarious.The best: the lack of communication between different cultures, Albert Delpy's character and his passion for destroying cars that are bad parked (it would be so great to be able to do that!), the American Republican losers, Jack's paranoia for Marion's man-eater complex, the fairy, the music, and the scene where Marion shouts at the racist taxi driver and criticizes France.The worst: that the film is so short. I wish it would have lasted an hour longer.

After seeing this movie for the third time, and laughing more and more with each viewing, I think I can officially say that I love Julie Delpy. In fact, I will go a step further and announce that she's one of the most talented and interesting artists around. She really can do it all--write, direct, sing, and play guitar. Hell, she even grows old gracefully. Two Days in Paris is hilarious, smart, offensive, dark, and completely ridiculous (see Adam Goldberg) in the best possible way. It's such a simple story, but she brings out the humor so organically, and that's why, like a vintage Woody Allen movie, it doesn't lose its raw pizazz.

French photographer Marion (Julie Delpy) and American interior designer Jack (Adam Goldberg) are visiting her crazy sexually inappropriate parents. Their relationship is having trouble and meeting her flirtatious ex-boyfriends and inappropriate parents does not help.Julie Delpy writes, directs, and apparently does everything else in her little indie. This film takes place in Paris over a 2 day period. The parents (Julie's real life parents) are hilarious. There is a lot of fun making Jack uncomfortable. And Adam Goldberg is always great at playing being uncomfortable. The meetings near the end are problematic coincidences. I'm willing to give that a pass. It is a movie after all. What makes this film is the good fun we have at Jack's expense.

What had the potential of being a great film with lots of opportunity of being another "The Out of Towners" with Jack Lemon and Sandy Dennis turned out to be a drawn out and tedious film of self indulgence by the director and author, Julie Delpy. The very few laughs or humorous moments were few and far between and the characters were extremely shallow and pathetic. This was watched with a friend who had the same impressions and we both found it to be typical of many French films without much substance and little to say. It was also fairly crude and crass for the sake of just making an impact and added little to whatever points were trying to be made. This was one long, tedious and drawn out film that had little to offer the viewer in terms of comedy and not much to redeem itself in its ending.