Watched in celebration of my 20th year of being in love with Julie Delpy.

Actually, it may have been slightly longer than that, but only by about a year. It depends on when they first showed Europa Europa on telly. For some reason I actually thought I had seen this before but I was getting it mixed up with Before Sunrise.

I want to get my major gripe with 2 Days In Paris out of the way first. Why are these two together? About five minutes in, Adam Goldberg's character is instantly pegged as a neurotic, sarcastic moaner who is going to complain about everyone and everything as the film progresses and seems to have no romantic chemistry with Delpy…

Much in the way that Rachel Getting Married was a cinematic time stamp on the year it was released in regards to relationships, so is Julie Delpy's 2 Days in Paris, one year prior. If 2008's Rachel is the genesis of hope and moving on from mistakes through love and inclusion, then 2007's 2 Days in Paris is surprisingly about the fear of terrorism: actual terrorism and acknowledgement of lover's past as only being a terrorizer not a bridge that provided the path for a person to move toward you. How anything can blow up at any moment, relationships, taxi cab confessions, and burger stands.

Delpy's film starts with her American boyfriend (Adam Goldberg) giving the wrong directions to his fellow…

Julie Delpy wrote, directed, produced, edited, composed the soundtrack, and played the leading role for this frustrating piece of work, which seems to have caught more admiration around parts where I was instead finding myself at distance. From watching her in Three Colors: White or any entry into Richard Linklater's Before trilogy, there's always something wonderful to be found whether it come from her acting or her writing, but seeing as she's putting herself up for so many responsibilities with 2 Days in Paris, the results were rather interesting but unfortunately not anywhere near the level that could have been reached with the potential being implied.

I always knew Julie Delpy to be a great actress, and unsurprisingly, she's absolutely…

Whit Stillman fans, assemble! This is basically a Stillman film as directed (and written, and starred in, and scored by) by Julie Delpy, and it’s pretty tremendous. Adam Goldberg, who doesn’t get enough work, is seriously hilarious and basically plays the Chris Eigeman role in a film that is as funny as it is clever with its themes regarding the (then) incipient widening cultural divide developing between nations in a post-9/11 world. Amidst the very funny shenanigans are all kinds of bigoted cab drivers, American tourists seen as invaders and Goldberg’s staunch liberal having to confront his own hypocrisies when facing the freer, more open sets of relationship boundaries found in girlfriend Delpy’s native France. It’s also quite emotional at…

6/10

I watched this soley for Julie Delpy but I ended up enjoying Adam Goldberg more.

I quite enjoyed that this was quite a raw look into a couples dysfunctional relationship. It is definitely not sappy 😂

Cringey at times (who does things like this geezo). I really felt for Jack (Goldberg). The characters are all pretty unlikable actually but they are very engaging. It was like watching a documentary because it just felt so real. For me this really goes in the films favour.

Quite fascinating that Delpy chose to portray herself as such a flawed individual. I could relate to her in ways though and I'm sure this must be how my husband felt at the beginning of…

2 Days in Paris is a romantic comedy about a couple who decides to spend two days in Paris on the way from Venice to New York and live by the woman's parents. Something about that definition kind of sounds odd. Comedy, hmm, I think I've heard that word somewhere. Oh that's right! It's a movie where you're supposed to laugh. Doesn't fit this one at all then. Unless you think people misunderstanding things all the time and not speaking the same language with each other is funny. Actually I'm not that sure if it's that romantic either.

Bashing aside, it's not a bad movie. Although Delpy has a lot of work to do, at times the movie is quite…