Adam Goldberg and Adam Julie Delpy play lovers having a rough two days in Paris
2 DAYS IN PARIS (Julie Delpy, 2007)
Columbia University, Low Library Steps
535 West 116th St. at Broadway
Thursday, September 8, free, 7:30
www.frenchculture.org
www.2daysinparisthefilm.com
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. 2 Days in Paris is being shown on September 8 at Columbia’s Low Memorial Library steps, concluding the Films on the Green: Summer Vacation series, which previously screened Jacques Deray’s Swimming Pool in Central Park, Pascal Thomas’s Towards Zero in Riverside Park, and Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt in Tompkins Square Park, among other special free outdoor presentations.