Best movie of this year hands down!

One of my all time favorites.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

A bilingual cringe comedy about a pair of New Yorkers whose two-year relationship is tested to the breaking point by a European vacation. Comparisons to "Annie Hall" seem inevitable—Delpy's co-star, Adam Goldberg, is like a more robust, tattooed-hipster version of Woody; Delpy's not exactly playing against type as a talky, excitable beauty who's had pretty bad luck with men (we get to meet a few of them). I guess writer-director JD's to be commended for her honesty in portraying both characters through the disillusioned eyes of love gone sour, but past a certain point we didn't find it all that pleasant to watch. Goldberg's character, Jack, is a snide, self-centered wuss who fusses about his migraines and sinuses and has to take cabs everywhere (prob'ly b/c JD has a lot to say about Paris cabdrivers). She tries to level the playing field by making her character, Marion, almost as annoying as Jack. It seems like Marion's freaked out by being back in a scene that she's outgrown: she's felled by a panic attack at an art party, then 86'd from a café for picking a fight with one of her exes, then gets into it with a racist cabby on the way back to her parents' apartment. The couple's terminal meltdown seems to be too painful even for JD herself—she excerpts the climactic scene in pantomime with voice-over... Delpy's obviously a talented filmmaker who's done some great work as an actress for Kieślowski and Richard Linklater, but I didn't think the insights she has to offer here really justify spending 90+ minutes in the company of these foolish, unlikable people. The vignettes of the small-frogs-in-a-small-pond (so to speak) Paris art scene are kind of funny; there's a nice mean-spirited riff on dumbass Da Vinci Codebreakers, a cute scene where Jack bonds with an ecoterrorist in a fast-food place, but all in all, I'd approach this one with caution.

2 DAYS IN Paris isn't going to be the kind of film to win any Oscars; its subject-matter is a familiar one (the American floundering in a foreign culture), and the conclusion equally predictable. Nonetheless Julie Delpy's film does have its incidental pleasures, notably two winning central performances from Delpy herself as Marion and Adam Goldberg (as Jack). Although different as chalk from cheese, they nonetheless try to sustain their love-affair in the face of almost insuperable obstacles - Marion's overbearing, non-English-speaking parents, a bohemian ex-boyfriend of Marion (Daniel Bruhl), plus a host of other impediments - imagined or otherwise - that befall Jack's stay in Paris. The film takes some predictable potshots at Americans abroad; their monolingualism, their expectations that everyone should think like them, irrespective of cultural differences; and their obsession with private as opposed to public issues. On the other hand the French are not immune from criticism either; Lukas (Bruhl) is portrayed as a libertine paying scant regard for such things as reliability or privacy. The film's conclusion is predictable enough, with the lovers vowing to separate yet unable to do so, but it has been an enjoyable trip along the way.

French photographer Marion (Julie Delpy) and American interior designer Jack (Adam Goldberg) are visiting her crazy sexually inappropriate parents. Their relationship is having trouble and meeting her flirtatious ex-boyfriends and inappropriate parents does not help.Julie Delpy writes, directs, and apparently does everything else in her little indie. This film takes place in Paris over a 2 day period. The parents (Julie's real life parents) are hilarious. There is a lot of fun making Jack uncomfortable. And Adam Goldberg is always great at playing being uncomfortable. The meetings near the end are problematic coincidences. I'm willing to give that a pass. It is a movie after all. What makes this film is the good fun we have at Jack's expense.

I think all people who believe in love should see it! So gracious, so full of humor and wits! This is not at all a pretentious, intellectual movie, neither is commercial. The image is so natural, about how a little more than average gifted people see the world. And I like what they see. Good image, good scene and costume design and in accordance with the simple philosophy of the movie. And the actors are so good! Every character has the right actor, they make you believe in their reality. Another good think is the way the film tackles one of the most embarrassing things that happen in a relationship, when you discover all kind of things about your girl/boyfriend or vice-versa and you don't know how to come out of there. It makes one feel better.