Marion and Jack try to rekindle their relationship with a visit to Paris, home of Marion's parents -- and several of her ex-boyfriends.Marion and Jack try to rekindle their relationship with a visit to Paris, home of Marion's parents -- and several of her ex-boyfriends.Marion and Jack try to rekindle their relationship with a visit to Paris, home of Marion's parents -- and several of her ex-boyfriends.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 5 nominations
- Manu
- (as Alex Nahon)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe characters of Marion's parents are played by Delpy's real life parents, Albert Delpy and Marie Pillet.
- GoofsWhen Marion tells Jack she doesn't use that thermometer in the mouth, Jack spits it out and it falls near the side wall, but Marion picks it up from the bed.
- Quotes
Marion: It always fascinated me how people go from loving you madly to nothing at all, nothing. It hurts so much. When I feel someone is going to leave me, I have a tendency to break up first before I get to hear the whole thing. Here it is. One more, one less. Another wasted love story. I really love this one. When I think that its over, that I'll never see him again like this... well yes, I'll bump into him, we'll meet our new boyfriend and girlfriend, act as if we had never been together, then we'll slowly think of each other less and less until we forget each other completely. Almost. Always the same for me. Break up, break down. Drunk up, fool around. Meet one guy, then another, fuck around. Forget the one and only. Then after a few months of total emptiness start again to look for true love, desperately look everywhere and after two years of loneliness meet a new love and swear it is the one, until that one is gone as well. There's a moment in life where you can't recover any more from another break-up. And even if this person bugs you sixty percent of the time, well you still can't live without him. And even if he wakes you up every day by sneezing right in your face, well you love his sneezes more than anyone else's kisses.
- Crazy creditsIn the portion of the end credits devoted to Thank Yous, scrawled outside the normal printing, are various language versions of Thank You (Spanish, German, etc.).
Not that Delpy doesn't have a lot of ideas to express on how each side of the relationship has insecurities and doubts and guises and real love to share. Goldberg, playing a kind of Woody Allen type of neurotic figure, and Delpy also in a form of quasi-neuroses, start off with a sort of sensibility between the two of them that's understood- he'll make subtle wisecracks, constantly, and she'll respond usually in kind. But then come the ex-boyfriends- as a form of unintended proof about Goldberg's theory, formed in Paris, that people across one side of the world will likely meet people one knows on the other side- and it starts to set off a chain reaction of questions raised and poised, trust broken, and the climax coming as exposition and a really stupid denouement with a dance in the street. It wont be anything of a Bergman scale of revelation, at the end of it all, but at the least 2 Days in Paris does afford many genuine moments of laughs and some nifty style amid the pretension. I liked Delpy's parents- played by her real life parents- who were nutty without being too over-the-top as caricatures, weird enough to unnerve Goldberg (rabbit for dinner?), while being sort of friendly and open (sex with Jim Morrison, who knew?).
I liked the moments of comic tension in the cab rides. And whenever a seethingly uncomfortable moment sprang up in a party scene (there's one line, I can't recall it now, but it comes during one of those drunken dialog bits that don't sound written at all, and it's the funniest in the film), it's a sweet piece of dark romantic comedy. The only shame then is that there's not a whole lot that Delpy adds to anything that hasn't been said in other romantic comedies, better ones, even with more realistic characters than most. Fine to see once with a couple of glasses of wine and with/without cigarettes, but as a tale of two people caught in a foreign land with the weight of circumstance and past ghosts in a relationship coming back up at the both of them I'd stick with Rossellini's 1953 film.
- Quinoa1984
- Sep 10, 2007
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,433,994
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $173,641
- Aug 12, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $19,776,159
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1