Adam Goldberg and Adam Julie Delpy play lovers having a rough two days in Paris
2 DAYS IN PARIS (Julie Delpy, 2007)
French Institute Alliance Française
Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th St. between Madison & Park Aves.
Tuesday, April 5, $10, 12:30 & 4:00
Series continues through April 26
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Julie Delpy’s delightful debut, 2 Days in Paris, is a true DIY indie, with Delpy serving as writer, director, editor, star, composer, soundtrack performer, and one of the producers. Delpy plays Marion, a flitty Frenchwoman who decides to bring her boyfriend of two years, Jack (a heavily tattooed Adam Goldberg), to spend two days with in her hometown in Paris as a stopover on their way from Venice to their apartment in New York City. But spending forty-eight hours with Marion’s family (Delpy’s real-life parents, Albert Delpy and Marie Pillet, and sister, Alexia Landeau) and bumping into a seemingly endless stream of Marion’s former boyfriends while not understanding a word anyone is saying might be a bit much for Jack, an interior designer whose own insides are rife with stomach problems and migraines. 2 Days in Paris is Delpy’s Annie Hall, an engaging film filled with slapstick humor, inventive characters, and underlying truths about love and life. It is screening April 5 at 12:30 and 7:00 at Florence Gould Hall as part of the French Institute Alliance Française’s CinémaTuesdays: Paris Today series, with Tonie Marshall’s five-minute 1994 short, Before . . But After (Avant . . . Mais Après), starring Mathieu Kassovitz and Quentin Ogier.
The series, consisting of contemporary films made in Paris, also includes La Danse, le ballet de l’Opéra de Paris (Frederick Wiseman, 2009) on April 5 at 7:30, Des câlins dans les cuisines (Sébastien Laudenbach, 2004) and Change of Address (Changement d’adresse) (Emmanuel Mouret, 2006) on April 12 at 12:30 and 7:00, Des câlins dans les cuisines and Au fin Moka (Boris Joseph, 2005) on April 12 at 4:00, The Sailboats of the Luxembourg (Les voiliers du Luxembourg) (Nicolas Engel, 2005) and Andalucia (Alain Gomis, 2007) on April 19, and It’s Sunday! (C’est Dimanche!) (Samir Guesmi, 2008) and Clara and Me (Arnaud Viard, 2004) on April 26.