GurlyIamBeach
Instant Favorite.
Helloturia
I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.
Portia Hilton
Blistering performances.
SnoopyStyle
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.
kosmasp
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 ...."
paul2001sw-1
It's a pretty small sub-genre of films, in which Julie Delpy plays an irritating European, wandering round a European city in the company of an even more annoying American. But Delpy, who starred in Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and its sequel, has now made a film of her own in a similar mould. Fortunately, it's not as self-regarding as Linklater's films, but it isn't funny enough to really work as a comedy, and if it's characters are a little less unlikeable, they're still not really interesting, being too self-consciously eccentric. Delpy tries to paint a picture of the reality of a mature relationship; but it doesn't really work when the protagonists have the emotional development of teenagers. I sincerely hope the genre goes no further than here.
reneweddan
After viewing Before Sunset and Before Sunrise, I was enticed by Julie Delpy's uniqueness. This had me seeking more of her films and after watching this, I found out it was directed and written by her! I underestimated this film, which is why I am blown away after finishing it just now. The rating of 6.9 does not do it justice.The dialogue is creative, almost as if it was connected with Linklater because of the depth of some of the conversations. The comedy is as it should be, very entertaining. The acting is great as well as everything else about this film.It reminds me, in a way, of Lost in Translation because of the way parts of their time in Paris are full of French dialogue that isn't explained to the character.I applaud this film, the rating does not do it justice, I give it a 10 because of that exact reason. It's a refreshing movie that is understandable and realistic from start to finish, as well as thought-provoking and enticing.And in case anyone is interested, the dialogue near the end is perfection, work of art, blew me away.
