"Deux jours à Paris" is actually "2 days in Paris" in French. It's a French movie, which is written, directed and acted by Julie Delpy. If you have seen "Before sun rise" or "Before sun set", you must be very familiar with Julie Delpy. She was the heroine and then the co-writer for those two movies.
The story of "Deux jours à Paris" is like this:
Marion (Julie Delpy) is a French photographer who lives in NYC and is happily dating an American interior designer, Jack (Adam Goldberg). However, to inject a little romance into the stagnating relationship, they take a trip to Europe. At a stop in Paris, instead of bringing the couple closer together, they start drifting apart when Marion's family acts impossibly rude to Jack, and their love life starts to really suffer when Marion begins to run into all her ex-boyfriends.
It's a romantic comedy movie. I went to watch it because one of my friends highly recommended it, and I like the actress a lot for her two other movies I mentioned above, and there is another very important reason -- because I'm studying French right now!
Half of the time they were speaking French in the movie, of course with English subtitles on the screen. But I still captured quite a few, such as simple greeting word "salut" or "ça va", the goodbye word "À bientôt" and "Au revoir", and "Il parle anglais?" "Très bon." "Merci beaucoup". And I can also pick up some easy words here and there, such as assez, belle etc. For someone who just started to learn French 3 weeks ago, I think that's a big accomplishment, I'm very proud of myself.
Honestly, I don't like this one as much as her other two movies. The other two have more depth in discussing about life and relationship, which makes you keep thinking about it after you watch them. This one is somewhat shallower. But it does tell you something about French culture. I feel french people or maybe european people in general are more open than people here, they talk about sex or sex organs just like we talk about cheese here. And french people do know how to flirt, that's why towards the end of the movie, Jack started to think Marion is a slut and not trustworthy. In the middle of the movie, I started to feel Paris is like Shanghai. City is crowded, apartment is tiny, people don't have enough privacy for themselves since they live in such a small space. People fight for cabs on the street and they eat all kinds of stuff such as rabbit and beef tongue.
Well, in general, the movie is ok. I like when Jack tried to make the 'r' sound and Marion is laughing so hard at him. I think that is a big challenge to learn French besides all the gender stuff! I tried so hard to make a good 'r' sound but now I feel like I'm making the exact the same sound Jack does. "errrrrr"! :(
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