2 Days in Paris
2007
****
Director: Julie Delpy
Cast: Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg, Daniel Brühl, Marie Pillet, Albert Delpy, Alexia Landeau, Adan Jodorowsky, Alexandre Nahon
Before heading back home to New York City, Marion (a French photographer) and her boyfriend Jack (an American interior designer) have a two-day stopover in Paris. However, the time spent with Marion's eccentric parents and the countless encounters with her former sex partners put their strained relationship to a test. Julie Delpy's directorial debut is a romantic culture clash farce, which she also wrote, produced, edited and scored. This very talky film follows in the footsteps of her best know screen role in the Before Sunrise / Sunset / Midnight trilogy, and it is heavily influenced by Woody Allen's early works like Annie Hall and Manhattan. The story may not amount to much, but she has made a lovely and effortlessly funny comedy. Marion and her family return in 2 Days in New York.
