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2 Days in Paris
Starring:
Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg, Daniel Bruhl,
Albert Delpy, Marie Pillet
Directed
by: Julie Delpy
Produced
by: Christophe Mazodier, Julie Delpy,
Thierry Potok
Written
by: Julie Delpy
Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films |
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Julie Delpy wrote, directed, and co-produced 2 Days in Paris,
drawing from personal experiences in her native France to make
the film a work that is entirely her own. To a certain extent,
she succeeds. Much like Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset,
another film set in Paris that she starred in, 2 Days in
Paris excels when indulging in its witty and
pleasurable-sounding dialogue. However, whereas Before Sunset
was a masterpiece due to the unconventional discourse between
its two characters, 2 Days in Paris falls short on the
whole because the majority of what it has to stay about its
subject and its setting is stereotypical. The stereotypes may be
true—much of the film is rather hysterical because of them—but
this doesn’t make them any less conventional within the confines
of the screenplay. The cultural misadventures of Delpy’s Marion
and her American boyfriend Jack (Adam Goldberg) are humorous in
the moment due to their ingenious delivery but ultimately prove
forgettable given their inherent unoriginality. As Marion and
Jack spend time with her family and run into many of her
ex-boyfriends along the way, the tone—if amusing—is frothy and
forgettable. In addition, it is worth mentioning that the end to
the film comes so abruptly and is so squeaky-clean that it can’t
help but seem like a cop-out. Delpy has exerted a noble effort
to balance comedy and drama with 2 Days in Paris, but her
work proves only partially successful in the end.
-Danny Baldwin,
Bucket Reviews
Review Published
on: 8.29.2007
Screened on:
8.28.2007 at the Landmark Hillcrest in San Diego, CA.
2 Days in Paris is rated R and runs 94 minutes.
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