Is a lovely film. I'm a sucker for movies that take place in Paris and I'm a sucker for movies about cross-cultural relationships, but having loathed Before Sunset, I went in to this one (which Julie Delpy directs as well as stars in) with lowered expectations, and came out delighted.
I could swear some of the dialogues are conversations I've had in real life, verbatim - only better, if that makes sense.
Adam Goldberg manages to play a sarcastic hypochondriac without sacrificing his masculinity - think Woody Allen-type humor, but with tattoos and a hairy chest. Julie Delpy's character is beautiful and neurotic and arty, but likeable and unpretentious.
The clichés are there (dumb American tourists! rude Parisian taxi drivers !) but Delpy has fun with them and uses them to wink at her audience rather than as the film's only comic motor, and it works.
Loved it.
I can't wait to see this - although who knows when or how...it started just after I left Paris. Great to hear your positive review!
ReplyDeleteAnd again, so sorry I missed you this time, but hopefully it won't be long till I am in your neck of the woods!