This isn't Paris. This is Hell.
No 390 - 2 Days in Paris Director - Julie Delpy So Julie Delpy is pretty damned cool. She is an actress in cool films. She is one of those cool indie people. So imagine my complete lack of surprise when I find that the film she wrote, directed and starred in is painfully cool. The opening montage of images, with Delpy's voice-over, just began to tell me that this film may have too many hipster credentials. I may not be cool enough to watch it ( pfft ... who am I kidding. I'm solid cool ). This film is embracing a culture clash. As a couple (one American and one French) go to Paris for a couple of days. Over these two days Jack (played by Adam Goldberg) and his girlfriend Marion (Julie Delpy) wander around Paris and meet a impressively large number of Marion's exes. This begins to put Jack in a bad mood and he gets progressively grumpier throughout the film. However, even at the beginning of the film he appears to be an antisocial whining grump that would rather be at ho...