adam goldberg play delpy neurotic american boyfriend who have a bad time in venice . he get dysentery and and photograph everything . have he never heard of those simple thing that get most american around the world . the only remain two day of the holiday be to be in paris and delpy hometown and before they go back to new york and where they live together . they move in upstairs from her parent and play by delpy real parent . culture shock cut into the american adam goldberg begin the first meal and braised rabbit . the couple wanders paris and talk in that way that lover do when they start to get on each other nerve . it be a reflection of the inevitably incompatible side of people and a paris bring out a part of delpy that goldberg be stun to see represent be she a fanatic political extremist and a blatant slut . they come across old boyfriend so frequently it make paris give goldberg the impression of a petite village and and when delpy attack one of them in a restaurant for take a vacation to thailand to do some nasty thing that she say in french and goldberg be feed up and unable to understand . this movie live and breathes julie delpy . as well a cast her parent and delpy put herself into this film in many other way represent she star and write and edit and direct and co produce and and compose and even perform some of the music . delpy actually have make a smart romantic comedy with a sharpness . there be nothing forced or corny about it . her couple bares thing about themselves they never think they would divulge to anyone . julie delpy be a woman who decline to be distinct or restrict . what she have do here be shun all inducement to reuse the standard lover have relationship problem that we see all the time in movie and and have shape two unique and odd character so preoccupied with their difference that paris be almost an agitation .