2 Days in Paris
7 out of 10 Starring Julie Delpy and that freaky guy from Friends , this is one of those difficult relationship films that manages to be pretty good despite being really quite depressing. Marion (Delpy) and Jack (Goldman) are a couple, stopping off in Paris on their way back to the States from Italy. Being Marion's home-town, they inevitably meet lots of her old friends, her family... and her ex-lovers. Cue tension and stress. For the entire film. It's kind of like watching a car-crash in slow motion, albeit a car crash with a liberal dose of dark humour and no severed limbs. I've read elsewhere that it's as much an exploration of cultural differences (Marion's French-cum-American vs. Jack's true-blood Yank) as a relaionship drama, but I don't buy that. Sure, cultural differences are pointed out — quite bluntly, as the French get it right in the neck — but it's the leads' personal interactions that are more to the fore. I wouldn't recomm...