Miserable, miserable people, boring movie

Dont agree with you. I dont usually like this sort of film, romantic stuff etc, but watched this with my wife and really got into it. I enjoyed the strange characters and the frenchness of it. I liked watching this paranoid nervous guy dealing with the confident french types as i have been there...the french are a lot like that, very confident, especially about sex etc.

There were stereotypes, but humans need stereotypes to function as a society, thats why they will always exist. I wasnt offended or anything and just chuckled along with the spirit of the film.

'quot homines tot sententiae'

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(Y) just lame movie

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Well I enjoyed the movie, a great dark comedy imo. I guess it could be considered a "romantic" flick, but I don't see that way at all considering the turmoil. I love her family, her father's eccentric art show, the photos of boyfriends with balloons tied to their dicks, the music, the dialogue, the stereotypes, whether it be the Americans or the French. To a degree, it reminded me of The Royal Tenenbaums.

To each his own, I loved it, you hated it, life goes on. Big whoop. I'm usually not on the computer while watching a film and I never try to know what the ending is. Low expectations help all films, but I went in with none b/c I knew nothing about it.

...for whoever gets here before watching this movie, trying to get an idea about what he's about to spend one-and-a-half hours of his life :

I couldn't but find the starting post totally off. Then again, it all comes down to personal taste. If you like a raw-kinda-film about every-day-stuff, if you like anti-hero-personas like those of Marion's and Jack's, if you like to watch a not-so-romantic film about romances and a humorous film with nearly-absent cliché funny lines and happenings...then there's no chance that you'll find anything "stereotypical" about "2 days in Paris".

Delpy writes, directs, acts and even edits, in a "cartoonistic" way. And even though she's been leading her adult life equally spent on both sides of the Atlantic, she mosty definitely maintained her "European culture in the way she perceives things". I read some place that she's considered to be "some kind of a European, female Woody Allen equivallent", and I think that that description was dead spot on. If you consider that she too used to play the clarinet, then I guess she does absolutely qualify for it... The only difference being that I personally do not sympathize as much with the works of Mr Allen's, as I seem to be with the ones of Mrs Delpy.

If you're expecting to watch something resembling, say, Cameron Diaz in comedy, then forget about it. If you are on the other hand looking for the exact opposite, then give "2 days in Paris" a try. It's probably not gonna be on you top-10 list of movies (maybe won't even make to top-100), but you're certainly gonna be compensated for the time spent. I myself consider it a notable vignette of todays "globalized worldwide society" and I'm glad I took the time to watch it. I at first thought/had the premonition it was going to be some boring, over-stylized, pretentious, untalented piece of garbage, and I found myself happy after watching it and having laughed unexpectedly spontaneously in quite a lot of instances.

First ty so much for your post, second having put myself in your shoes I'm assuming you were no older than your late 20's when you wrote this or laughter is an achievement to be unlocked.
There were plenty of pause and go back moments, if you have personally or quietly looked admirably at the world around you. Now is this movie for everyone, no. There are people who don't get 'The Godfather', which simply means if you don't get it, it's not the movie's fault but yours. I am not attacking, I am simply taking the same amount of time as you did out of your day to start this thread to comment.
This is a wonderful example of a time for a woman who has her *beep* together in her mid 30's to show her impressions of how much her hometown/countrymen have changed or stayed the same since her earliest memories. Don't you wish you could put to print your most honest interpretations of the same?

Exactly my thoughts, man. I grew tired of watching that clumsy attempt at pseudo jokes, or funny situations, underlining cultural differences, and all that through the very silly fights of a couple who just has absolutely nothing in common in the first place. They don't make sense, Adam is overly irritated by everything, and Marion acts like she doesn't even know how he works, and they just act like their own separate selves, just outside of a couple, really, which just look quite lame, because it looks like they could have been together for like a month or so.
I didn't manage to watch it till the end, it was so getting on my nerves.

Agreed. This movie was trying too hard. Almost every situation was so over the top t was unbeliavable and it was just not funny at all. Had to turn it off after an hour or so.