FIND MOVIES
Movie List
Loading ...
or
Find Theaters and Movie Times
or
Search Movies

Review: 2 Days In New York

Rowdy follow-up to 2 Days In Paris
By PETER KEOUGH  |  August 17, 2012

Her angelic appearance notwithstanding, Julie Delpy is one raunchy woman. It was evident back in 2007 in 2 Days in Paris, and it comes through even more in this equally rowdy follow-up. Let's just say I can't think of another filmmaker who's shot her towel-clad dad, Albert Delpy, bending over with the family jewels prominently on display. Delpy père plays Jeannot, the father of Julie's character Marion, who along with the rest of her family have descended from Paris to camp out in the Manhattan apartment she shares with her boyfriend.

>> INTERVIEW: Julie Delpy explores her neuroses in New York <<

As Mingus, Chris Rock shows his skill as a straightman, both to the rambunctious pater familias Jeannot and a cardboard standy of Barack Obama. The latter is representative of the sly, lighthearted way Delpy broaches such serious subjects as politics, interracial romance, and artistic integrity. As well as grief and loss; her late mother Marie Pillet, prominent in the earlier film, makes an unusual cameo.

  Topics: Reviews , New York, New York City, France,  More more >
| More


Most Popular
ARTICLES BY PETER KEOUGH
Share this entry with Delicious
  •   REVIEW: WHITE ZOMBIE  |  February 12, 2013
    This Kino Classics release is worth it if only for historical purposes, since it demonstrates that from the start zombie films embodied the Marxist paradigm of capitalism (Lugosi) versus labor (zombies).
  •   REVIEW: BEAUTIFUL CREATURES  |  February 11, 2013
    Throughout his adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's YA novel, Richard Lagravenese drops the names of books that would have provided a more rewarding way of spending a couple of hours than watching this movie.
  •   LAST ACTION HEROES?  |  February 05, 2013
    Maybe it was the moment in The Last Stand when a guy exploded, or the scene when Arnold sawed someone in half with a Vickers machine gun, or maybe it was the 10th brain-splattering bullet to the head in Sylvester Stallone's Bullet to the Head .
  •   REVIEW: SIDE EFFECTS  |  February 08, 2013
    Ironically, the filmmaker who started his career with sex, lies, and videotape , a film boosting female sexuality and empowerment, now ends it with a so-so thriller that resorts to the same old misogyny.
  •   REVIEW: HORS SATAN  |  January 30, 2013
    God works in strange ways, especially when Bruno Dumont directs him. Or is that the devil?

 See all articles by: PETER KEOUGH