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2 Days in Paris

Review By: Dan Deevy
DanDeevy@TheCinemaSource.com

Finally, a movie set in Paris that actually looks like Paris! A film that gives an accurate account of what it looks like and often times what happens to Americans when they visit. Normally, when a movie shoots there they film everything at the Eiffel Tower and in the surrounding area at night; which of course is littered with all the pretty white Christmas lights that completely draws your attention away from the dirt and grim that encrust most of the city streets and buildings. The creative team makes sure that all of the elements support the ridiculous, ‘most romantic city in the world,’ notion. You never get the sense that as characters are leisurely strolling along the Siene that they’re actually choking on the noxious fumes emanating from the “water.” But in truth, that’s what’s happening. Most romantic city in the world my ass!

As you can probably guess by now, my last trip to Paris was far from romantic or idyllic. In fact, it was the worst I’ve ever taken and you couldn’t pay me enough to ever, ever go back there. The infamously rude Parisian behavior, their attitudes towards Americans and the over whelming air of arrogance that hangs over the city like smog over L.A.; all of it was omnipresent and true to the stereotypes.

Granted, I am in the minority with these opinions which is why I was so happy to see someone else experience my Paris! In 2 Days in Paris, (which is far too long if you ask me) Adam Goldberg (Entourage, I Love Your Work) faces exactly what I did except to a much, much higher degree. For me, Paris is someplace I never want to visit again, for Adam’s character Jack; it’s literally hell on Earth.

Jack and his girlfriend Marion (Julie Delpy) are on the final leg of a European excursion that has spanned several countries and just as many, if not more, arguments between the pair. Their last stop before heading back to the melting pot of the world, their shared apartment in New York City, is the town where Marion grew up. It is said that to really get to know someone you have to travel with them. Apparently, the stress of being displaced from your routine and the familiar causes us all to show our true colors. Well for Marion, it’s the reverse. Her true zany, off beat nature isn’t fully revealed until she is back where she began among her loony feuding parents, familiar town, opinionated cab drivers and overly flirtatious ex-boyfriends.

Julie Delpy who writes, directs and stars in this piece does a fantastic job of creating the multi-layered photographer Marion; A girl who both literally and figuratively sees the world in a ...