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‘2 Days in Paris’ is set to premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival on Saturday August 25th at 19:00 and 21:30. Click here for information on how to order tickets.

Written and directed by actress Julie Delpy, this is as fresh, elegant and intelligent as her onscreen presence, and unexpectedly hilarious.

High-maintenance French photographer Marion (Delpy) and her American boyfriend Jack (Adam Goldberg) pay a visit to her family in Paris, and find their strained relationship further challenged by the culture clash. He can’t handle her spontaneity, or the lax French approach to sex and personal hygiene. She, meanwhile, is free-spirited to the point of psychosis. Throw in her seriously eccentric parents (played by Delpy’s real-life folks), an overly attentive ex-boyfriend (Adan Jodorovsky, son of directing legend Alejandro), and an affable terrorist with a fast-food phobia (Daniel Brühl) - and the stage is set for a transatlantic screwball showdown that surprises and delights at every hairpin turn.

Source: edfilmfest.org.uk

Julie is set to appear at the Edinburgh Film Festival on Sunday August 26th at 14:30. The time of this event is subject to change. Tickets will go on sale at midday on Friday July 20th. Click here for information on how to order tickets.

Actress. Writer. Singer/songwriter. Director. A new Renaissance woman with a fascinating career.

Discovered at the age of 14 by Jean-Luc Godard, Julie Delpy has always been more than an exquisite face. Yes, she looks - as Ethan Hawke’s character put it in Before Sunrise - like ‘a Botticelli angel’. But not every ethereal French screen goddess opts to play a Nazi, as Delpy did in Europa Europa; or a girl in the throes of an incestuous relationship with her father, as in Voyager; or a rotoscoped animation of herself, as in Waking Life. Even in Kryzstof Kieslowski’s legendary Three Colours trilogy, Delpy was the White witch, a deliciously nasty foil for Juliette Binoche and Irene Jacob’s limpid heroines. She’s always had an edge. Little wonder, then, that her directorial debut, Two Days in Paris, is such a smart, mischievous caper - the work of a sharp intellect and a wicked sense of humour. A genuine star talks us through a life in the spotlight.

Source: edfilmfest.org.uk

Actress Julie Delpy has wanted to be a director since she was 17, when she wrote her first script. In 1992, having acted for great filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard and Krzysztof Kieslowski, she went to the NYU film school. She did well and graduated eager to get behind the camera. Years later, all she had to show for it was a short film and a indie feature that never saw theatrical release in the United States. She also had a drawer full of scripts that reflected her love of science fiction and other nongirlie topics. She couldn’t get any of them produced. “I was kind of losing hope,” she said.

Then a friend suggested she write a script that bore some similarity to “Before Sunset,” the successful 2004 film Delpy had starred in and co-written. She had shared an Oscar nomination for the screenplay, and her friend’s supposition was that financiers would feel “safe” with a project that seemed like “Before Sunset.”

The trick paid off. Delpy wrote 40 pages of a relationship farce set in Paris, which she then shopped around. She found financing for it in Germany. The result is “2 Days in Paris,” a witty, Woody Allen-esque comedy about a Frenchwoman (Delpy) who brings her American boyfriend (Adam Goldberg) home to Paris. It’s slated for a late-summer release.

“This is why my first film is a romantic comedy,” said Delpy, now 37, with evident exasperation. “It is only because it is the first time people will give me money to make a film. People will trust a woman to do something with a relationship more than they will to do something with a war story or science fiction.”

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