"It's so ugly when you speak French!" (Marion / Julie Delpy)2 Days in Paris is a funny and surprising film written, directed, edited, and starred by the talented Julie Delpy. It has a taste of Woody Allen and a taste of European films.The film was nominated for a César award for Best Original Screenplay (Meilleur scénario original). The script is brilliant indeed.Julie's real parents play Marion's parents. The father is hilarious.The best: the lack of communication between different cultures, Albert Delpy's character and his passion for destroying cars that are bad parked (it would be so great to be able to do that!), the American Republican losers, Jack's paranoia for Marion's man-eater complex, the fairy, the music, and the scene where Marion shouts at the racist taxi driver and criticizes France.The worst: that the film is so short. I wish it would have lasted an hour longer.

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.

Actually if you think of it, is more than two. But that is a theme that runs through the movie. The free spirited female and the more constraint male. But you can't fault one or the other. It is human emotions that run their daily lives. And it is that, that makes them vulnerable and also causes quite a lot of problems. It is also the source of many of the dialog. Dialogue that tries to be very deep and succeeds in doing so quite often.But while it is philosophical you do wonder if every relationship is as talky as this. Which brings us to the inevitable comparison to the "Before ..." movie series. Also staring Julie Delpy. She has that role pigeon holed and likes to rattle on some relationship standards. Or even male/female prejudices. The french family on display here, does add to the humor, if you're not getting too annoyed here. A sequel came out to this, that follows Julie furthermore, but more of that in "2 days ...."

I hope to god if I ever spend 2 days in Paris that my experience does not play out like this... You know, with more down's than up's in the romance department. Even though this film touches on the darker side of romance, it somehow still manages to be extremely entertaining in a French-Woody Allen kind of way. Some might not enjoy the word heavy comedy, but if you are a fan of independent film and have a deep appreciation for films that think out of the box then you should see '2 Days In Paris'. Near the end of a their journey through Europe, two seasoned lovers return to Paris before their return to New York. Marion, played by Julie Delpy, is actually from Paris so she and her lover Jack, brilliantly played by Adam Goldberg, shack up in the apartment above Marion's parents. While fighting his way through translation, Jack begins to be taken over by paranoia as Marion engages in suspicious and erratic behavior. Is she hiding something? Is it lover's jealousy? Or is Jack just lost in the cross-hairs of American and French culture? These are the main questions this film explores all while introducing us to wonderfully developed characters, witty dialogue, and a unique pace that sets '2 Days in Paris' apart from other films.