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2 Days in Paris

EMAILPRINTSamuel Goldwyn Films

2 Days in Paris reviews
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6.6 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 30 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy  |  Drama  |  Romance

Written by: Julie Delpy

Directed by: Julie Delpy

Release Date:
Theatrical: August 10, 2007
DVD: February 5, 2008

Running Time: 96 minutes, Color

Origin: Germany / France

Language(s): English / French

Summary

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)

What The Critics Said

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90

The New York Times Stephen Holden

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

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80

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.

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80

Empire Liz Beardsworth

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

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75

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

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

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75

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

Amusingly raunchy.

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75

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

A smart film with an edge to it.

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75

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).

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75

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

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

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75

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.

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75

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.

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75

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.

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75

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson

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

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70

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.

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70

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.

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70

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.

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70

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.

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70

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.

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70

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.

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67

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.

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67

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

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

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67

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.

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63

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.

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63

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.

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63

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

By accident or design the film is seriously unbalanced.

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63

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.

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63

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.

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63

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.

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60

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.

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50

ReelViews James Berardinelli

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

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40

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.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.6 (out of 10) based on 37 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Aaron S. gave it a9:
I find it rare to come across a movie that I thoroughly enjoy start to finish. This was a good surprise. Had many good laughs though-out.

Franglais B. gave it a3:
I would've given this movie 2 points, but I decided I liked some of Golberg's lines. Delpy is at best a mediocre actress, and her voice-over throughout the movie was annoying reminder of her lack of voicing emotion and of her whiney, "mrs know-it-all" voice. The movie itself was so full of dated, one dimensional cliches of the French and Americans, I felt it could've been written by one of the racist taxi drivers in the movie.

Tom kk gave it an8:
Great movie about an all too real couple dealing with hilarious relationship problems. People might not enjoy the movie since both characters are not very likable, and they aren't intended to be. People take this to be a romantic comedy, formulating the Hollywood perfect love stories of an American guy and a French girl visiting the most romantic city in the world, Paris. If you view it this way, of course your not going to like it. This movie blows such romantic notions aside. One could even argue if the movie is romantic, since the couple deal with all too real situations. Adam Goldberg plays a typical NY American: neurotic, hypochondriac, egotistic, doesn't care or know much about other cultures. Yet the French girl is neglectful, anger-aggressive bordering on scary. The movie makes mocks both cultures, and this culture-clash boils to a nice and powerful voice-over in the end. While the ending is ambiguous and weak, the movie is hilarious and lovely.

Gaz gave it a3:
Well, if you're hoping for another Before Sunrise/Sunset, you'll be disappointed. An annoying little movie. Even the "endearingly quirky" characters (those whacky French!) are pretty annoying. Really, I hated this.

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.

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