”PARIS is a wonderful place,” says Julie Delpy, “but it’s not a postcard. There are bad sides to it, and if you’re raised there, you know that it has edges, sharp ones. There’s crime, there’s murder …” and she starts to laugh, because in her new film, 2 Days in Paris, it’s not the dark underbelly of the city of lights that she is bringing to the screen but something more mundane, awkward and funny.

In 2 Days in Paris, the sharp edges, after all, are things such as “taxi drivers, ex-boyfriends, all this stuff that happens, simple things that cause trouble”, when a French woman (Delpy) and her American boyfriend take a quick trip to her hometown and discover that it’s not the ideal setting for a relationship crisis to play out.
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I know it’s a few days early, but I’m going to be away for the next few days and didn’t want to miss the opportunity to wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving on behalf of the site. We hope you all have a wonderful time with your loved ones.

I made DVD caps of our beautiful Julie in one of her earliest films: La Passion Béatrice.

‘The Hoax’ will be released on DVD tomorrow, October 16, 2007 and can be ordered through Amazon.com and will also be available for online rental at Blockbuster.com and Netflix.com.

Julie Delpy produces, writes, edits, directs, composes and stars in 2 Days in Paris, an amazing accomplishment for any person. Because the entire fate rests on the shoulders of just one person, these types of films have a tendency to either bomb or totally succeed.

Thankfully, 2 Days in Paris is an outstanding achievement. It is at once personal and universal and a cinematic wonder. The movie tells the story of Jack (Adam Goldberg) and Marion (Delpy), a modern, educated couple that are bitterly sarcastic, have no intentions of ever having children but are completely in love. They are just returning from Venice and have planned to stay with Marion’s parents in Paris for two days before returning to New York.

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