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Rating:  - One great bilingual movie! hilarous!
this movie is very well written, the reason I think the reviews are so bad on this site is that its bilingual. Even if there are subtitles (both ways) the humor of both the english and french speaking characters don't match up. It works,just not as well. So if your open to subtitles or bilingual I recomend this! Very funny, well acted and well written! hilarious, mon cher bouffe chie dort! haha.
Rating: - Well written movie!
I thought this movie was fantastic! It's insightful, realistic, intelligent and well written! I don't understand why some reviewers reviewed it so poorly. This movie is not like the normal mainstream movies that are shown over and over again. Maybe some people wanted the "hollywood love story", which this is not; however, this is a movie about realistic love, relationships, etc.
Rating:  - Hilarious! cliches become real in this laugh out loud comedy by beautifull and brillian Delpy!
First of all, I can't believe negative reviews about this film, since it started I couldn't stop laughing! Delpy is so lovable as this kind of esquizofrenic french woman who is spending two days in paris with her boyfriend at her parents house. Won't go into details, just give it try! one of the most brilliants funny scenes I have seen in a movie is the ride with the "racist taxi driver" ... "WELCOME TO FRANCE, WELCOME TO FRANCE, WELCOME TO FRANCE!
and so on... there are many great moments in this film if you are into comedy, her parents int he film ( and also in real life ) are just fabulous!
Delpy: I love you!
also: why compare this movie to before sunset/sunrise???? hello? I dont see the point of comparission, completely differents films....
Enjoy it!
Rating:  - Not the best time in Paris
2 days in Paris (2007) was produced/written/directed/edited/scored/starred by Julie Delpi who also recruited her real parents to play the parents of Marion, her alter ago.
Julie Delpy who was absolutely charming as Celene, the heroine of two Richard Linklater's movies (Before the Sunrise and Before Sunset), tried to make the similar film or rather follow-up about the couple that have been together for few years, experience some problem in their relationship, and try to work them out. Judging by the fact that Delpy has thrown so much of herself in all aspects of creating the film, she deserves my deepest respect. The problem is, as much as her movie walks the same territory as Before the Sunrise and Before Sunset (it takes place in Paris as the title suggests), it is not as good as they were. The chemistry between two main characters, the French Marion (Delpy) and New Yorker, Jack (Adam Goldberg) is completely non-existent, the plot is very thin but it is not even the biggest problem. The film has no subtlety, elegance, wit, or charm, and if it does, they are very well hidden. Yes, few times Woody Allen's name came to my mind because Adam Goldberg seemed doing homage to Woody Allen's character, neurotic, unsecured, and whining - and not particularly good one. He was mean, often without the reason. The scene in the beginning of the movie when Jack gives the group of the Americans tourists the apparently wrong directions to Louver just because he is sure that they are conservative Bush supporters does not make him a white knight, and it is just not funny. I also did not find charming Marion sending to her family via e-mail the picture of naked Jack with the colorful balloons. I have nothing against pictures a la nude, and from what I was able to notice, Jack had nothing to be ashamed of but how about privacy and trust in the relationship? Whatever happens between two people in their intimacy should stay between them because it belongs to them only. How about simply asking a boyfriend if he would not mind his funny picture be sent to his girlfriend's family? Does sensitive, intelligent, feisty Marion ever think of it? I was so much in love and could not get enough of one afternoon in Paris few years back with Celene and Jesse. 77 minutes long Before Sunrise was so clever, so romantic, and so moving that it made me want to see another movie with French girl and her American love, to find out what could've happened to them. Well, little did I know that it would be "2 Days in Paris". It is sad for me to admit, but Delpy's follow up to two of the most romantic modern screen observations of the relationships was a disappointment. I should mention that Delpy's movie has some positive sides to it. I liked how she showed HER Paris, very real, tough, and not sentimental. I liked for the most parts her parents Albert Delpy and Marie Pillet in their roles. There is one scene that I enjoyed and every time I think of it, it makes me smile. On their way to visit Jim Morrison's grave at Per Lashes, Marion asks Jake, Why do you want to see Jim Morrison's grave? You don't even like The Doors. And he answers, "It is a famous grave...I am a huge fan of Val Kilmer". Sadly, all the bright points were not enough to save the movie - I never thought that two days in one of my favorite places in the world may be so unbearably long and disappointing.
Rating:  - A far less charming Before Sunset
Maybe it was intentionally played out as such, but this film left me disappointed and bored. Not the least of the reasons for the ennui is that Delpy already made this film, much more effectively, with Ethan Hawke under Richard Linklater's direction. Supposedly this film, as with Sunset, is somewhat based on her romance with the male protagonist. Maybe it helps the drama to know that Hawke left Uma Thurman for Delpy and that the pivotal rant on the riverboat rang with an authenticity that one can not make up. Maybe this boyfriend, Greenberg, is as neurotica and hypochnodriac as he is played. The result is that Sunset is emtionally engaging while 2 Days seems like it's never going to end.
Both Delpy and Greenberg essay stereotypes. He is the shlub hybrid of Woody Allen crossed with Jerry Seinfeld, without any of the redeeming characteristics of either. He's not that funny, and all I could feel after every moment of him on film was oy. If this is based on real life, whatever did Delpy see in this guy? Delpy for her part goes from the fast talking, liberated lover who still carried a torch lit by a sense of guilt and revenge in Sunset to just a fast talking and shallow promiscuous bonbon in 2 Days, a French blonde pretending to be Woody Allen. Not my cup of doppio I am afraid. Both characters are relentlessly grating. Nails down a chalk board the entire time they are on film. The scene of her getting him to put on a condom is possibly the least funny sexual comedy ever recorded. He gives up. I did too, and the film had hardly gone 30 minutes. It got worse as it went on.
And while the city of Paris was a notable supporting player in the Sunset film, the city this time looks like if it could get out of this movie it would. More's the pity this wasn't filmed someplace more grim, as there's nothing to laugh at here.
Delpy wears glasses and has an ugly astigmatism and is somewhat autistic according to the storyline. None of that means much or explains much, but there you have it. Supposedly she took up photography and then Greenberg usurped that role on whatever trip this is supposed to be. Perhaps that is a political statement on US/Franco relations. Perhaps I'm hoping she might actually have been reaching to say something. In any case, it is a far cry from the story that unfolds in Sunset as two lovers reunite at first just to find out what happened to each other and then come through the anger and recrimination of missed opportunities and settled decisions that have imprisoned each while the other always hoped for another chance. This is just two self-absorbed, mean spirited whiners, ugly american nails ugly french tart. I am reminded of the Eric Idle bit in the tourist sketch about the guy who whines and whines in a stream of consciousness about Whatley's red ale and they don't make the scones like they do in Dorset and.....
Hopefully Delpy is capable of better. Maybe give up on the old boyfriend routine. She isn't Joni Mitchell in film, so leave the forlorn romances to someone else. That or just do such films with Hawke. There was a real chemistry present that is conspicuous by its absence here. The only saving graces of this film are her parents, who are deliciously off the rive gauche throughout the movie, and the actress who plays her sister. Mom's a little nuts, and Dad has obviously OD'd on Cialis. The sister is as much of a hoot as Christopher Walkin was as Diane Keaton's brother in Annie Hall. That's small compensation for enduring Delpy and Greenberg.
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