Critic Reviews

Audacious as it is, the movie is also a little scary.

2 Days in Paris is pure Julie Delpy, figuratively and otherwise. Since first becoming known to American audiences in the early '90s, she's revealed herself to be an artist of sundry and unexpected talents, with a distinctive voice and point of view.

Quirky, fresh and sharply intelligent. A promising debut for director Delpy, both thought-provoking and painfully funny.

Much of the nattery byplay seems improvised, and the results are very hit and miss – inspired contretemps alternate with gabfests that seem to go on forever.

Weighty and downbeat though that sounds, Delpy's film is delightfully light, especially when it's parsing the infinite variety of horrible French cabbies.

Delpy wrote the dialogue that gives the film its forward thrust, and "2 Days" is a wonderful first feature.

For all the verbal jokery, it's more tragedy than farce.

A smart film with an edge to it.

The bickering lovers are generally likable, as are her quintessentially and hilariously Gallic parents (played by Delpy's real mom and dad).

Perhaps the most promising thing in 2 Days in Paris is that Delpy shows that she can direct herself.