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Julie Delpy, who usually graces very serious films, plays a screwball heroine with a ditzy family in 2 Days in New York, a continuation of her successful 2007 comedy 2 Days in Paris. She stars, directs and is the co-writer, setting the film s goofy tone. Here s a wonderful actress who has worked with Kieslowski, Jarmusch, Tavernier, Godard and Agnieszka Holland, and you d think her only influence was Woody Allen.
In an admirable way of briefing us on her character Marion s story so far, she opens with a puppet show being performed for her small son. This is the child she produced with the Adam Goldberg character in 2 Days in Paris, and since that film was about the disintegration of their relationship, it s no surprise he s history. She s back home in New York, living with a radio talker named Mingus (Chris Rock), who has a small daughter. They have a happy household, until her family arrives from France to meet Mingus.