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| Directed by | Julie Delpy |
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| Based on | Original characters by Julie Delpy |
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| Cinematography | Lubomir Bakchev |
| Edited by | Isabelle Debinick |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
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| Budget | €8.1 million[2] ($8.8 million) |
| Box office | $4.1 million[3] |
2 Days in New York is a 2012romantic comedy film co-written and directed byJulie Delpy. It is a sequel to Delpy's 2007 film2 Days in Paris.[4]
Parisian Marion is living in New York with her son, in order to be closer to Jack, the boy's father (Marion's ex-boyfriend from2 Days in Paris).[4] She and her new boyfriend Mingus have a cozy relationship until the arrival of Marion's father, sister and sister's boyfriend, on vacation from France. The group's two days together are tested by "unwitting racism and sexual frankness", with no one left unscathed.[5]
2 Days in New York premiered at theSundance Film Festival on 23 January 2012.[5] The film was screened at theTribeca Film Festival on 26 April 2012[8] and at theSeattle International Film Festival on 21 May 2012.[4]
2 Days in New York was released theatrically in France on 28 March 2012,[9] in the United Kingdom on 18 May 2012,[10] and in the United States on 10 August 2012.[8]
Following the film's Sundance premiere, distribution rights inScandinavian andBaltic countries were acquired by Stockholm-based NonStop Entertainment.[11]
On thereview aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 67% based on 108 reviews, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "2 Days in New York breezes past its shortcomings thanks to an enjoyably madcap plot and the sweet chemistry between its well-matched stars."[12]Metacritic, which uses aweighted average, assigned the film a score of 61 out of 100, based on 26 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[13]
According to Steve Rose ofThe Guardian, "Delpy'salter ego Marion" is a "lovable mess of neurotic babble, intellectual uncertainty and unmanageable lies"; the film is a "delightfully eccentric comedy,...big on laughs, low on pretense, exaggerated but emotionally sincere—not least in Delpy's dealing with the death of her mother (in real life as well as in the movie). We've rarely seen comedy this smart sinceWoody Allen andSeinfeld left New York."[14]Total Film's Neil Smith said the film is a "haphazard meditation onFranco-American relations, which hurlsscrewball situations, oddballcameos and the oddone-liner liberally at the screen without much caring if any of them stick." Smith concludes "what it all adds up to is an anything goes take on modern relationships with a side order of broad stereotype. Expect to be amused and bemused in equal quantities and you'll be amply entertained."[10]
