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…

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…

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…

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…

I can't believe this film has existed for 7 years without me seeing it. Co-incidentally enough I saw one of my best friends last night for the first time in 7 years. When you hit a certain age, it astounds how quickly time passes. He'd gained a wife and son. I'd gained a wife and daughter. Julie Delphy had filmed her version of Before Sunset. She skipped her first instalment and went right into a chaotic middle stage of a relationship with a very funny Adam Goldberg.

The relationship is doomed as both can't grasp the others feelings or opinions. They share a same sense of humour, barely, but that's about it. As a married man I could smell relationship…

A loving caricature of the spirit of a city and a testament to the talents of Julie Delpy as a writer-director. (And editor and soundtrack artist and lead actress...jeeze give yourself a break Delpy.) Delpy's multilingual script and perfect casting of Adam Goldberg as a man whose hybrid boorishness and nebbishness leads to extreme enervation set up Delpy the director to bring it all to life with verve. She's one for tonal shifts, and pendulating between this film's cringe comedy and understated downer romance shows she can pull them off with aplomb. My favorite touch was a light one, during a scene late in the movie where the lovers are separated as a music day celebration carries on around them.…

Ein überraschender Film von jemandem dem mans so kaum zugetraut hätte: Julie Delpy ist eine ständige, regelmäßige Nebendarstellerin wenn mal wieder ne französische Geliebte o.ä. Gebraucht wird – hier aber punktet sie mit einem klugen und witzigen Film bei dem sie die weibliche Hauptrolle spielt und obendrein Drehbuch und Regie übernahm. Dabei kommt eine der spritzigsten und witzigsten Filme des Jahres raus – bei den rasanten Dialogen und Wortduellen fliegen regelrecht die Funken und das ganze muß sich vor etwa einem Kevin Smith Film keine Spur verstecken. Adam Goldberg erweist sich als optimale light Version eines Ben Stillers, der Film lehnt sich ohnehin an die „Meine Braut ...“ Streifen an, dazu gibs ein glaubwürdiges Portrait einer gebeutelten Beziehung an einem…

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…