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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Julie Delpy reveals all in her directorial debut. When Julie Delpy has acted in other directors’ movies she’s generally played the fantasy version of a modern French woman: effortlessly Bohemian, unashamedly romantic, exotically mysterious. But casting herself as the co-lead in her writer-directorial feature debut, Two Days In Paris, it’s clear she enjoyed turning all the perceptions of her and her work sur la tête. “It’s angry, there’s a lot of edgy stuff,” she agrees. “I co-wrote Before Sunset and I love writing romantic stuff, but I thought it would be good to do a movie grounded in something rougher and more real, kind of mean sometimes. In a way it’s funnier.”  In summary – American / French couple Jack (Adam Goldberg) and Marion (Delpy) soul-searching in Paris – Two Days sounds suspiciously akin to the much-loved Before Sunrise / Sunset diptych she made with director Richard Linklater and co-star Ethan Hawke. But here the sensibility – sometimes tender, more often raucous – is all Delpy’s own. In fact some have even questioned whether her movie, her real-life actor parents playing her onscreen folks, is a thinly veiled autobiography. “I have psychologist friends who saw the film,” she cheerfully admits, “and they told me, ‘we know more about you now than from 20 years of talking to you because it reveals so much.’” Wait – even the hilarious scene where Jack discovers that a snapshot of him naked with a helium balloon tied to his short and curlies has become a family photo? “Let’s say that… I’ve done it before,” Delpy smiles. “But it’s not a sex game, it’s more for fun. It’s true that I do consider men as a present and so wrapping them in balloons with ribbon is totally how I see men and sex. It’s like ‘Party!’”  Pigeonhole Julie Delpy at your peril, yet the reality is that Two Days was only greenlit because of its purported similarities to Before Sunset. “I’m hoping this film will convince people to trust me more,” she rues, given her wide-ranging panoply of projects ready to go. Next up, she’ll write, direct and star as The Countess, based on the 17th-century legend of virgin-sacrificing Elizabeth Bathory. “Studios are terrified of that,” she gripes. “They’re like, ‘what’s the demographic?’ People born in 1650?” Then there’s World Wars And Other Fun Stuff To Watch On The Evening News, “the one I really want to do,” she says, then pauses. “It’s a comedy, obviously.” Mais, naturellement.
Leigh Singer
Two Days In Paris, on selected release 07 September 07.
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