Date: March 11Location: Clifton Living Room
It's impossible to watch this film and not compare it to Before Sunset. As in Sunset, Julie Delpy (who wrote, directed, edited and even scored this film) plays a romantically-confused French woman wandering through Paris conversing with her snarky American boyfriend. Her parents even return, playing her parents, just as they did in Sunset.
The problem is, just about any film suffers in comparison to Richard Linklater's classic, so a film that so brazenly mimics it really doesn't stand a chance. Delpy and Adam Goldberg do their best with the often-clever script, but I couldn't shake the feeling that she was with the wrong guy. I had no investment in the romance, and the neuroses grew old rather quickly. The plot was also contrived — Delpy's character keeps running into old boyfriends — in a way the Linklater film (and its "prequel" Before Sunrise) never did.
I like both of these actors quite a bit and would love to see them (together or separately) in a film that isn't a blatant copy of one of my all-time favorites.
