If there ever was a great self-indulgent dark comedy about mediocre love, this is it. From 2007, 2 Days In Paris is the story of a couple, American Jack (Adam Goldberg) and Marion (Julie Delpy), who is French but lives in New York, and their two days in Paris following a relationship-testing trip to Venice.
Written and directed by Delpy, the film looks at the facets that make up a relationship and how they are often illuminated once the people involved are out of their comfort zones. In this case, Jack, an interior designer and ruler of the sarcastic world, who knows no French has taken to snapping many photographs while adjusting to the idea that his girlfriend of two years has had many boyfriends before him and, in France, it is not uncommon to stay friends with one's ex. Marion, a professional photographer, is wrestling with the idea of her boyfriend being the one taking pictures all of sudden and, in the presence of he hometown and past-lovers, coming to the realization that Jack might be the one she stays with.
While much of the humor stems from cross-cultural errors and missteps, along with Goldberg's expected and often spastic delivery of his lines, the entire film wreaks of intelligent-real life comedy. Delpy has a clear talent for satirizing the events in everyday life as well as in bumpy relationships. Even her crude humor has a hint of class to it. Screaming to Jack from the side of the very public river promenade during one argument, Marion shouts, "
Classic. I'm sure this movie is in some Walmart bargain bin. Go rescue it now!
Sergio del Limónar
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