Review of 2 Days in Paris (2007) by Raheem H — 11 Aug 2012
Snagged in the wonderful, maddening details of that thing we reduce to one ill-fitting word -- love -- Julie Delpy's transcendent directorial debut flirts with farce, but keeps its bruised heart tethered to the cagey, frustrating, longing, easily bored and never satisfied heart.
It's a heart that's built like the cluttered metropolis in which "2 Days in Paris" is set. Which is all-too fitting, since the city absolutely torments American interior designer Jack (a never-better Adam Goldberg), but oh how empty his life would be without it and the exquisitely complex woman that drags him there (Delpy).
The honesty of this flinty, hilarious movie is scorching: Love is a dimly lit room that we have to enter by choice, without knowing the whole scene, and always wondering if there's a "better" room out there.
We'll never know the answer to that riddle with absolute certainty. Love promises no such thing. It doesn't need to.
This review of 2 Days in Paris (2007) was written by Raheem H on 11 Aug 2012.
2 Days in Paris has generally received positive reviews.
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