from a study of the movie poster and you might be tempt to think this be another pointless romantic movie about two lover in france . oui and they will fight and love and eat croissant and find meaning . how drearily cliché . but and surprise of surprise and two day in paris be a very funny and very soulful and very interesting look at a slice of the life of two quite interesting character . on the surface and marion ( julie delpy ) and jack ( adam goldberg ) be two irritatingly pretentious neurotic . both 35 and childless and they have be travel europe for 2 week and decide to stop in paris for a couple day to drop in on marion family and friend before fly home to new york . marion be french and the child of left wing french artist . jack be a new yorker and a political lefty whose shallow grasp of culture ( he speak only english and for instance ) be purely american . she have aspiration to be a photographer and though ( for reason the film will make clear ) her work be strictly third class . he take picture of everything and but have no eye for form and color or composition . what fun about the film be the complexity of the relationship . to jack annoyance and marion keep bump into her old boyfriend . and her father seem intent on humiliate or offend him and his american taste . a dinner scene in which he be offer a rabbit head be just hilarious . when offer carrot and he say and so and be go to eat the bunny food and too . for her part and marion can not understand why jack find her continued casual friendship with ex to be so extraordinary . and jack and utterly clueless about the nuance ( or even the surface content ) of marion conversation and be get paranoid that he be not be tell everything . at one point and marion be hold a violent argument with a racist cabdriver . jack know something be go on and but can not get past marion insistence that everything be fine . i realize a i write this that i be do no justice to the joyful sense of voyeurism that the film affords . the film be so smartly write and fast pace that sometimes you forget you be watch a film and think you be watch dinner with julie real family or attend party with her smug and artsy friend . the film be completely convincing and have a depth of heart i do not expect . it deal with secret and the frustration that come from know another person . the language and culture barrier then act a metaphor for the inability of two people and even lover and to inhabit another life and experience . two day in paris be not for all . marion and jack be exemplar of the bad aspect of u and european artistic class . their treatment of a group of american on a da vinci code tour tell you more than you want to know about the antagonism between right and leave . but their smug and knowing put down of bush and cheney supporter be less political message by the movie maker than marker of the character personality . this movie about liberal do not necessarily espouse their world view . but and at heart and this be a love story and not a political drama . secondly and since we be talk about shallow artist and there be an enormous amount of politico sexual art on display in the film . while this may be offensive to the audience and it presence help to define the character themselves . it not there to titillate the viewer and but to describe the actor . delpy and who write and direct and produce and act in the movie and have make a master work that be complex and evocative and real and quite beautiful . she have capture aspect of the french national character that seem quite convincing . she have also aptly capture the emotion and dilemma of 30 something adult who and under it all and be still look for meaning and belonging and peace . goldberg give a powerful and hilarious performance . he ben stiller with a soul . if you can put up with the film politics and you will be amply reward . magnifique .