Two Days in Paris (2006)
(Deux jours à Paris)
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col 101m
Director: Julie Delpy
Cast: Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg
Synopsis:
A French photographer on the way back to New York with her Jewish-American interior designer boyfriend stops off to spend the weekend in Paris at her parents'. While there they reassess their relationship.
Review:
This offbeat romantic comedy owes much to the spirit of Woody Allen, particularly Annie Hall in its relaxed voiceover narration and neurotic characters; there is even a scene on the Métro not unlike the Christopher Walken one in that movie. What is fresh is the female perspective, naturally, and the bracing look at ways in which the Americans and French see each other, through a series of highly amusing stereotypes ranging from hypochondria and uptightness on the one hand to sex mania and inhumane eating habits on the other, the latter nicely trumped in a scene in a fast food restaurant. Most uproarious of all is the series of sexist and racist taxi drivers the couple fall prey to. On reflection, the 'kiss and make up' ending seems hasty and perhaps even contrived.
(Deux jours à Paris)
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col 101m
Director: Julie Delpy
Cast: Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg
Synopsis:
A French photographer on the way back to New York with her Jewish-American interior designer boyfriend stops off to spend the weekend in Paris at her parents'. While there they reassess their relationship.
Review:
This offbeat romantic comedy owes much to the spirit of Woody Allen, particularly Annie Hall in its relaxed voiceover narration and neurotic characters; there is even a scene on the Métro not unlike the Christopher Walken one in that movie. What is fresh is the female perspective, naturally, and the bracing look at ways in which the Americans and French see each other, through a series of highly amusing stereotypes ranging from hypochondria and uptightness on the one hand to sex mania and inhumane eating habits on the other, the latter nicely trumped in a scene in a fast food restaurant. Most uproarious of all is the series of sexist and racist taxi drivers the couple fall prey to. On reflection, the 'kiss and make up' ending seems hasty and perhaps even contrived.
(Deux jours à Paris)
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col 101m
Director: Julie Delpy
Cast: Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg
Synopsis:
A French photographer on the way back to New York with her Jewish-American interior designer boyfriend stops off to spend the weekend in Paris at her parents'. While there they reassess their relationship.
Review:
This offbeat romantic comedy owes much to the spirit of Woody Allen, particularly Annie Hall in its relaxed voiceover narration and neurotic characters; there is even a scene on the Métro not unlike the Christopher Walken one in that movie. What is fresh is the female perspective, naturally, and the bracing look at ways in which the Americans and French see each other, through a series of highly amusing stereotypes ranging from hypochondria and uptightness on the one hand to sex mania and inhumane eating habits on the other, the latter nicely trumped in a scene in a fast food restaurant. Most uproarious of all is the series of sexist and racist taxi drivers the couple fall prey to. On reflection, the 'kiss and make up' ending seems hasty and perhaps even contrived.