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90Audacious as it is, the movie is also a little scary.
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80Quirky, fresh and sharply intelligent. A promising debut for director Delpy, both thought-provoking and painfully funny.
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802 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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75A smart film with an edge to it.
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75Amusingly raunchy.
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75Delpy wrote the dialogue that gives the film its forward thrust, and "2 Days" is a wonderful first feature.
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75Perhaps the most promising thing in 2 Days in Paris is that Delpy shows that she can direct herself.
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75Weighty 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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75The 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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75The movie doesn't add up to much, but it's an effervescent expression of an odd brute-hummingbird sensibility.
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75For all the verbal jokery, it's more tragedy than farce.
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75Much 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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70Delpy'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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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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702 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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70This 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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70There 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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70Among 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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67Provides a smart and funny respite from most of what passes for romantic comedy these days.
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67Delpy 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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67Before 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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63By accident or design the film is seriously unbalanced.
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63The movie is just a situation salad, at least until the end, when things start to pull together a bit.
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63Delpy'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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63Delpy 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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63Here'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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63Although 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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60The 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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50The movie doesn't offer enough to make it interesting or even diverting.
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40Anyone 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.