The spirit of early Woody Allen is alive and well on the streets of the French capital in “2 Days in Paris,” an entertaining, deliciously played walk-and-talker by helmer-writer-star Julie Delpy and co-star Adam Goldberg. Dialogue-driven humor, which often goes way beyond satirizing just Yank-Gallic differences, has a traditional French lightness but also a fearlessness that’s refreshing. Though the set-up sounds similar to the the two pics Delpy made with director Richard Linklater (”Before Sunrise,” “Before Sunset”), the tone is much livelier and more offbeat. A fest crowdpleaser, this could go on to warm specialized B.O.

First seen on a train back from a seemingly idyllic holiday in Venice, Jack (Goldberg) and Marion (Delpy), who’ve been together two years, have decided to stop off in Paris for two days on their way home to New York. He’s an American-Jewish interior designer, with many Woodman-like neuroses, and she’s, well, she’s a slightly ditzy French photog with an eye defect.

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Julie Delpy’s romantic comedy “2 Days in Paris,” on which Delpy served as writer, editor, composer, star and first-time feature director, has been acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Netflix’s Red Envelope Entertainment at the Berlin International Film Festival.

The companies picked up all U.S. rights to “Paris,” splitting costs in what Goldwyn vp acquisitions Peter Goldwyn calls a “50-50 partnership.”

Goldwyn will handle a theatrical rollout in the summer, with Red Envelope helping with promotion and Netflix distribution after a standard theatrical window. Goldwyn also will release “Paris” on DVD in a deal being finalized with a home video distributor.

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If you took Annie Hall and Meet the Parents, threw both films — as well as a Paris backdrop — into a blender, out would pop 2 Days in Paris (or Deux jours à Paris) — a charming, hysterical and sometimes gut-wrenching new film from writer-director-actress Julie Delpy. Pic, which is celebrating its World Premiere here in the Berlin fest’s Panorama section, follows one couple’s desperate attempt to remain calm and committed to one another while enjoying a two-day holiday in Paris, France.

The film’s stuck-in-the-moment quirkiness is not all that unfamiliar to Delpy, as images of her co-starring role opposite Ethan Hawke in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset certainly dance in our minds throughout. But, instead of Hawke’s dry, boring “someone slap some energy into this guy” persona, we get Adam Goldberg in all his neurotic glory. To say the film will simply put a smile on your face is a huge understatement — if you’re not wiping off tears of laughter and heartache by the time the end credits roll … well, then you’re simply not human.

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Julie Delpy’s “2 Days in Paris” is one of the hot films so far, particularly among U.S. execs who have been buzzing about the movie since its world premiere on Saturday. A sort of “Meet The Parents” set in Paris, Delpy’s sharp, entertaining low-budget movie offers both hilarious and poignant elements after lead character Marion (played by Delpy) brings her liberal yet neurotic New Yorker boyfriend Jack (Adam Goldberg) to visit her loud, sometimes brash family in Paris (played by Delpy’s own parents) at the end of a vacation in Venice.

Cut to their two-day stay in Paris, the couple experience the good and bad of modern French life, and along the way run into a several of her ex-boyfriends and a noteworthy “fairy” terrorist, played by Daniel Bruhl. A few buyers informally polled indieWIRE about the movie in recent days to gauge critical response to the winning comedy, some expressing concern that it might be a bit too similar to the recent “Before Sunset.” Insiders expect the movie to easily strike a theatrical deal with a U.S. buyer, with one distributor telling indieWIRE that a sale was expected to close on Sunday night.