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2 Days in Paris
Samuel Goldwyn Films


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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg, Daniel Brühl, Marie Pillet, Albert Delpy, Aleksia Landeau, Adan Jodorowsky, and Alexandre Nahon

2 Days in Paris follows a New York couple, French photographer Marion and American interior designer Jack, as they attempt to re-infuse their relationship with romance on a European vacation. Their week in Venice didn't work out as planned--the food didn't agree with Jack and when he was well enough to go out, he was so focused on capturing the trip with his digital camera that he forgot to experience it. They have higher hopes for their last 2 days in Paris. But the combination of Marion's offbeat and overbearing non-English speaking parents and flirtatious ex-boyfriend, with Jack's continuing photography obsession an conviction that French condoms are too small, don't make for an auspicious beginning....(Samuel Goldwyn)

GENRE(S):	Comedy \| Drama \| Romance
WRITTEN BY:	Julie Delpy
DIRECTED BY:	Julie Delpy
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: February 5, 2008 Theatrical: August 10, 2007
RUNNING TIME:	96 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	Germany / France
LANGUAGE(S):	English / French

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Audacious as it is, the movie is also a little scary.

Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

2 Days in Paris is pure Julie Delpy, figuratively and otherwise. Since first becoming known to American audiences in the early '90s, she's revealed herself to be an artist of sundry and unexpected talents, with a distinctive voice and point of view.

Empire Liz Beardsworth

Quirky, fresh and sharply intelligent. A promising debut for director Delpy, both thought-provoking and painfully funny.

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

The movie doesn't add up to much, but it's an effervescent expression of an odd brute-hummingbird sensibility.

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

Amusingly raunchy.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

A smart film with an edge to it.

Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan

The bickering lovers are generally likable, as are her quintessentially and hilariously Gallic parents (played by Delpy's real mom and dad).

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Perhaps the most promising thing in 2 Days in Paris is that Delpy shows that she can direct herself.

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

Much of the nattery byplay seems improvised, and the results are very hit and miss – inspired contretemps alternate with gabfests that seem to go on forever.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Weighty and downbeat though that sounds, Delpy's film is delightfully light, especially when it's parsing the infinite variety of horrible French cabbies.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Delpy wrote the dialogue that gives the film its forward thrust, and "2 Days" is a wonderful first feature.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson

For all the verbal jokery, it's more tragedy than farce.

Time Richard Schickel

This anti romantic and anti-comic -- it's not as funny as Delpy seems to think it is -- movie may appeal to the dark side of your immune system.

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

Delpy's writing is sharply observed and often hilarious, and her own performance as the perennially enraged Marion -- whom she says was inspired by Robert De Niro's Jake LaMotta in "Raging Bull" -- is one of her most memorable.

Slate Dana Stevens

2 Days in Paris doesn't quite meet the "Before Sunset" standard of intricate, subtle dialogue and sharp psychological insight--then again, neither do many movies this side of Eric Rohmer. That this one is even bearable is a surprise; that it's occasionally insightful and hilarious is a treat.

Village Voice Jim Ridley

Delpy shows Linklater's influence in her willingness to let actors work and walk at length, and she has an unusually playful style for an actor turned filmmaker.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

There is enough "hit" material to make this fun. Delpy is such an infectiously appealing personality, she almost wills this movie to work.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

Among the many offhand virtues of Julie Delpy's first feature as solo writer-director is the fact that she's as attentive to French foibles as American ones.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak

Before the film flails, like a balloon losing air into a terrible finale, it has the audacity to lay siege to just about every xenophobic bias possible. No one -- or country -- is safe in this comedy and for that alone it's admirable.

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Provides a smart and funny respite from most of what passes for romantic comedy these days.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Delpy wrote and directed this study of a relationship heading (it would seem) for the rocks. She stages it with a funny and diverting improv-y flow.

USA Today Claudia Puig

Delpy is clearly a gifted writer, especially of comic dialogue. But she and Goldberg don't quite work as an engaging pair.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter

Although she lets her flair for creating funny, sharply written, quirky scenes consume her feature directorial debut, her use of family, friends and even an ex (Goldberg) in 2 Days In Paris, gives the film a wonderfully natural, comfy feel.

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

By accident or design the film is seriously unbalanced.

New York Post Kyle Smith

The movie is just a situation salad, at least until the end, when things start to pull together a bit.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Here's all you really need to know in order to determine whether Julie Delpy's 2 Days in Paris is something you need to experience for yourself: Her blond hair is often all frizz, and she prefers glasses with a big black frame. She's Mia AND Woody.

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

Delpy's manic energy shoots through this meet-the-parents comedy like electroshock, resulting in a movie that is as acutely painful as it is acutely funny.

New York Magazine David Edelstein

The movie should be seen with a large, responsive audience--the better to live with it in the moment instead of worrying about where it’s going.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

The movie doesn't offer enough to make it interesting or even diverting.

The New Yorker Anthony Lane

Anyone hoping that 2 Days in Paris will revisit such peppy romance (“Annie Hall”), however, will be frustrated. There is an extra rawness here, a determination to confront and annoy.

The average user rating for this movie is 6.7 (out of 10) based on 32 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

David S. gave it an8:
Fearing a remake of Before Sunset, this is a pleasant surprise. Delpy's own parents are so obnoxious in the film they certainly add to its comic value. It is much more honest about relationships than the romantic subject matter suggests. A weak ending doesn't spoil a movie with many smart moments such as Delpy exhorting 'welcome to France' whilst making a Nazi salute in a confrontation with yet another racist Parisien cabbie.

James J. gave it a2:
The subtitles in the DVD are messed up--don't rent this movie until they fix this. I also did not like the movie.

J M gave it an8:
I love to hate this movie. the film perplexed me so much on the first viewing that i watched it again the next night, i think that says something. both of the lead characters are so invitingly hatable [sic], and their plight and embattled social thrashings border on predictable in their familiarity, but you can't write them off. because it's funny, and it hovers close enough to reality (at least it does to my most ridiculous relationships). beware similarities to woody allen movies, as delpy - especially in the opening few scenes - seems to be making a modern day interpretation of alvie singer in paris.

Greg gave it a3:
This movie is almost half in French. Plus the story doesn't really go anywhere. It is definitely not very romantic. It is a stream of consciousness type movie without much point or anything to keep you interested.

Andy L. gave it a0:
Seems like this is one of those films that you either love or hate. I'm no film buff but personally I thought it was complete pants. Switched the DVD player off after 30 minutes and went to bed.

Chad S. gave it a7:
Thanks to Julie Delpy's flimsy singing voice, and even flimsier guitar-playing; the world has "Once", which to me, is "Before Sunset"(or "...Sunrise") with music. Marion(Delpy) doesn't sing in "2 Days in Paris", but she walks and talks like the anti-Celene, and her tattooed, hirsute boyfriend Jack(Adam Goldberg) is the anti-Jesse(Ethan Hawke), a misanthrope who would probably role his eyes if Marion wrote him a waltz. What "Before Sunset" and its evil doppleganger have in common is Delpy, who on her maiden directing venture, set out to demolish the romanticized notions that domestic filmmakers have about American men and their, ooh-la-la, French girlfriends. "2 Days in Paris" plays like a commentary on the Richard Linklater trilogy(if you count Jesse and Celine's cameo in "Waking Life") from an insider's point-of-view(after all, Delpy was born in France). "Before Sunset" is about idealized love; untested love, because Jesse only thinks he knows her; whereas in "2 Days in Paris", Jack only thought he knew his girlfriend. Real love is having to deal with your lover's baggage. In the same amount of time it took for Jesse to fall in love with Celine(two days and a night), Jack falls a little out of love with Marion; as each notch on his girlfriend's bedpost he meets in the flesh, renders him more and more impotent, when Paris slowly reveals itself to be the city of promiscuous sex, not the city of romance.

Damien A. gave it a7:
I can't believe the poor review it got from Anthony Lane in the New Yorker.. Can't he at least appreciate it for its playfulness and fresh take on Paris romance? I enjoyed it greatly for what it is.. a romantic comedy with bite.. Delpy is a modern Annie Hall and some of the scenes were very funny if not laugh out loud.. They make a great realistic pair.. this film had people I could relate to. Maybe it's because I'm a neurotic 30 something who is crap at relationships.. And calling it a vanity project is just plain stupid.. So what if her parents are in it- they are great. And so what if she sings over the final credits- it's cute. So if someone is just the actor and director it's not a vanity project but wo be them that do more..Pah! Show me a recent romantic comedy that's better.

2 Days in Paris Samuel Goldwyn Films

2 Days in Paris
Samuel Goldwyn Films