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• Creative Screenwriting - Volume 14 Number 4
• MovieMaker - Summer 2007
• Total Film (UK) - 2007
• Clippings

Julie Delpy’s “2 Days in Paris” is a sophisticated treat. Written, directed by and starring the French actress best known for “Before Sunrise” and “Before Sunset,” this latest film comes across as a contemporary screwball comedy — with a French accent.

It’s the story of Marion (Delpy), an insecure photographer, and Jack (Adam Goldberg), her neurotic American boyfriend. The action focuses on Jack’s concerns regarding Marion’s sexual history, particularly his discomfort at the presence of several of her old boyfriends.

While Delpy’s character is reminiscent of the one she portrayed in the “Before” films directed by Richard Linklater, her approach as a writer-director has a lot more in common with the seriocomic scenarios of Woody Allen.

This could be the breakthrough role for Goldberg (”Waking Life”). It’s hard to imagine another actor bringing off Jack’s unique blend of charisma and contrariness so perfectly and so endearingly.

“2 Days in Paris” has plenty to say about modern relationships, romantic and otherwise. It’s lighthearted, but not lightweight.

Source: stltoday.com

Most American film fans know Julie Delpy from her work in the sweetly romantic Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. So 2 Days in Paris, her latest movie as writer-director-star, won’t come as much of a surprise. It’s exactly the sort of work we’d expect from the pretty blond so adept at deep, deep thoughts and dreamy come-ons in those two romances.

Delpy pairs up with the acridly amusing Adam Goldberg for a story of a New York couple who stop in her hometown, Paris, on the way home from a lovers’ trip to Venice. While there, Jack (Goldberg) unhappily discovers her romantic history, the number of French men who never got over their fling/affair/tryst or whatever with the enchanting Marion.

His French isn’t great, so he’s oblivious when taxi drivers hit on her. But he has the good sense to go to his phrase book to check all her text messages and translate them. Not a fun time for Jack.
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At 37, Julie Delpy has stopped waiting for Hollywood to call.

And she’s stopped waiting for Paris or the rest of Europe to call, either. The French actress, a Hollywood transplant since the early ’90s, still spends a few months a year in her home city. But starring in such acclaimed films as Europa, Europa; Three Colors: White; and Before Sunrise didn’t guarantee her work there.

She became a screenwriter, earning a co-writing Oscar nomination for Before Sunset, the sequel to her romantic idyll Before Sunrise. She’s been directing. She even composes the scores to her films, making her “the most ambitious actress working today” (USA Today).
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Back in Paris and scripting the life of a mass-murdering, oversexed Hungarian countess - while wondering why the poor voted for Sarkozy - the actress’s thoughts turn to living in London

Sunday September 2, 2007
The Observer

Here I am at home and all I do is sit and write. When I read things about this Julie Delpy character - she writes, she acts, she sings -she sounds fabulous. As if she’s running around, doing exciting things, dressed in a tutu: ‘Ah, it’s Tuesday, I’m going to put on my tutu and dance around the apartment.’ So why do I feel my life is so boring? So why am I sitting here in front of this screen? And, sadly, not wearing a tutu.

The simple answer is that I’m trying to finish rewrites on the next film I’m scripting, The Countess. It’s about Elizabeth Bathory, sometimes called the Bloody Countess, born in the 16th century in Hungary. She’s thought to be a serial killer who killed lots of young girls. Even better, she tortured her young victims and sucked on their blood to preserve her youth. So evil and there’s the vampire connection, the sex… that’s the story, anyway.

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