2 Days in Paris (2007)

I'm Australian. I dated a French girl for 3 years. This movie is such an accurate representation of our relationship. Her exes or "friends" were always in the picture. The text messages are claimed to be "not that bad". "Messaging is not cheating" apparently. It gets to a stage where every single guy she knows, you automatically assume that she slept with him. And it's right 90% of the time. Just like Jack, I went through the situation of realizing that my girlfriend is a slut. So many lines in this film are direct quotes of hers. So many situations are exactly the same. Meeting the parents, "oh insults already". Insults in French were non-stop from her family. As I learnt French and could understand more and more I couldn't be around her family at all.  Every issue raised about her family or her meeting up with "friends" (exes) was met with anger. All blame was put on me of course. In the end I concluded that despite what she says, she does not believe in monogamous relationships. It's safe to say that I'm not a fan of the French. I find them immoral.

"It's so ugly when you speak French!" (Marion / Julie Delpy)2 Days in Paris is a funny and surprising film written, directed, edited, and starred by the talented Julie Delpy. It has a taste of Woody Allen and a taste of European films.The film was nominated for a César award for Best Original Screenplay (Meilleur scénario original). The script is brilliant indeed.Julie's real parents play Marion's parents. The father is hilarious.The best: the lack of communication between different cultures, Albert Delpy's character and his passion for destroying cars that are bad parked (it would be so great to be able to do that!), the American Republican losers, Jack's paranoia for Marion's man-eater complex, the fairy, the music, and the scene where Marion shouts at the racist taxi driver and criticizes France.The worst: that the film is so short. I wish it would have lasted an hour longer.

This movie is the reason why I created my account. I found it absolutely awful and have the need to share this with the readers of this review.Let me summarize in a few words.Boring: it has no interesting story to tell, besides the classical story of a malfunctioning relationship.Annoying: 95% of the movie plot consists of two people having an argument, not getting along, or being bored.Not funny: I understand enough of French and American culture to claim to understand its humor, if there is one. But there is absolutely none. I vaguely smiled twice during the entire movie.Exaggerated: I just come home from a week in Paris. The people are absolutely not like shown in the movie (they are all shown to be assholes).Very kitsch: The "lessons" the character of Julie Delpy has learned by the end of the story couldn't be more kitsch. She has now understood the world - fantastic! Don't spend your time on this movie. I came to watch it because I'm a huge fan of the Before Sunrise-Trilogy with Julie Delpy. But this movie, seriously, is just so much crap!

I hope to god if I ever spend 2 days in Paris that my experience does not play out like this... You know, with more down's than up's in the romance department. Even though this film touches on the darker side of romance, it somehow still manages to be extremely entertaining in a French-Woody Allen kind of way. Some might not enjoy the word heavy comedy, but if you are a fan of independent film and have a deep appreciation for films that think out of the box then you should see '2 Days In Paris'. Near the end of a their journey through Europe, two seasoned lovers return to Paris before their return to New York. Marion, played by Julie Delpy, is actually from Paris so she and her lover Jack, brilliantly played by Adam Goldberg, shack up in the apartment above Marion's parents. While fighting his way through translation, Jack begins to be taken over by paranoia as Marion engages in suspicious and erratic behavior. Is she hiding something? Is it lover's jealousy? Or is Jack just lost in the cross-hairs of American and French culture? These are the main questions this film explores all while introducing us to wonderfully developed characters, witty dialogue, and a unique pace that sets '2 Days in Paris' apart from other films.