Two Days in Paris
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Movie Reviews of Two Days in Paris
Movie Review: A great surprise-Delpy one heck of a talent
Summary: 4 Stars
Years after the romantic dramas "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset", Delpy revisits and redefines the Modern Paris blabfest movie with this really, really funny movie.
A transitional actress, Delpy is obviously more talented than her type-cast characters let on.
The movie is crude, funny,weird and a labor of love. I had no idea she could write this well-some really clever characters, events and twists. Also, a great vehicle for Delpy other side-yelling,paranoid and angry.
Movie Review: Two Days in Paris
Summary: 4 Stars
An enjoyable comedy with 2 charismatic lead actors that had good chemistry together. Is there any possibility of a sequel? The picture quality was acceptable.Movie Review: Over-rated and Under-directed
Summary: 3 Stars
I have to preface this by saying I have never been a Julie Delpy fan, although Adam Goldberg tends to rate high on my actor-index, and being a multiple-time a year visitor to Paris the movie immediately drew my attention.
There is nothing much of interest in this film, other than watching a couple fall apart over the course of several days. Anyone who has gone on vacation with a lover they "kind of know" has had that feeling of how a relationship will either be strengthened or torn apart in a different situation when the only binding force is the person you are with.
Every cliche in the relationship-falling-apart drama is here -- the eccentric parents; the annoying sister; the obligatory argument on the banks of the Seine; the handsome and mysterious friends.
Delby wrote, stars in, and directed this film. The Last of that list is the reason this film doesn't work. It is poorly directed, the camera angles weird, and for a film set in her hometown of Paris, you see almost none of it -- what is the purpose of staging an elaborate fight on the banks of the Seine when you throw it into such low depth of field that everything except your face is out of focus -- it might as well be a fight on the shore of the Detroit River.
The finest scene in the film -- a conversation in a taxi with the driver in which her venom and drivel (and flirting) remain untranslated to her non-French speaking boyfriend Adam, is stunning. It's a shame the entire movie couldn't maintain this level of observation.
Delpy and Goldberg are real-life ex-lovers, so their scenes together seem comfortable and relaxed, for the most part. Julie does a fine job in her acting scenes, and my respect for her work continues to increase with each film, maybe one day she will win me over. Adam Goldberg here gets the showier work, and he does an excellent job with it. Someone write this man a movie role, please!
This is advertised as a comedy. IT IS NOT. It is a bitter, sometimes unpleasant, and occasionally amusing look at a relationships last days.
The final scene is as cliche as the rest of the film -- flashback dancing in a cafe to rap music. ARGH.
Recommended, but you won't want to see it more than once, so I'm not sure this is a film you will want in your permanent DVD collection, unless you have a specialized collection.
Movie Review: Lost in Translation
Summary: 3 Stars
Free love is a rather glum affair in Julie Delpy's directorial debut. Fans of the angelic Ms. Delpy, or of Paris, will have to check this out, naturellement, but it is best to keep your expectations rather low. Delpy demonstrates a sure hand with framing shots, and really, it's not possible to make Paris look unappealing, but Delpy and Adam Goldberg as the respective halves of an estranged couple sure give it the old college try, with more or less constant bickering marring the pretty views. Enroute home to New York after a disasterous trip to Venice, Marion (Delpy) and her crabby, misthanthropic boyfriend (Goldberg) stop off for a weekend in Paris to visit her parents. These two have been together for two years, which is long enough for once charming and endearing clashes in personal style to become grating and hateful, and that is the point at which these two have arrived. Within the familiar environment of her childhood home, Marion is transformed in the eyes of her culture-shocked beau into something of a potty-mouthed slut with an indiscriminate and prolific past; he is not sure how to cope with this unflattering metamorphosis or the revelation that Marion has seemingly slept with half the men in Paris prior to moving in with him. There are some nuggets of comedy gold here that Adam Goldberg might have been able to mine were he more like Bill Murray and less like himself, which is to say, dour and hairy. As much as the audience wants to sympathize with his linguistic and romantic plight, Goldberg makes his character deeply unappealing, and we think yeah, it might be better if he were out of the picture altogether. Three stars for some charming street scenes of Paris, and for the delightfully bawdy performances of the actors playing Marion's maman and papa--they are Delpy's real-life parents and are the best thing in it.Movie Review: Julie Delpy as star, writer, director, composer, editor...and she does casting to boot
Summary: 3 Stars
I've opined in the past that Julie Delpy has been underutilized by Hollywood and Paris - my feeling being that she's deemed too American for French tastes, too French for American tastes. So, like in Before Sunset (which she co-wrote), Ms. Delpy has taken things into her own hands here by writing, directing, editing and composing this film. Impressive! For good measure, she did the majority of the casting as well, corralling her parents (who are actors) and Adam Goldberg into the production.
Like 'Before Sunset,' the film is a torrent of words. It looks improvised, but it's not. For example, as Delpy points out in the 'Making Of' featurette, the dinner scene where Goldberg meets Delpy's parents in a cross-cultural gaffe-fest was, in fact, highly scripted.
The head-scratcher is why these two characters (Delpy's and Goldberg's) are a couple. As the film goes on, Goldberg's character goes from quirky to annoying to downright unlikeable. I know she's playing a role, but as a Julie Delpy fan I found myself wanting to urge her that she deserved better.
That criticism aside, there are some very well-observed, flat-out funny passages in the film.