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Review: ‘2 days in New York’ (M) **

AS well as a stellar acting career on both sides of the Atlantic, Julie Delpy has directed seven films.

In this one, Delpy, who also wrote the screenplay, plays Marion, an artist photographer living in a small, New York apartment with Mingus (Chris Rock) a radio talkback host and writer of magazine articles.

Marion’s French family is coming to visit – her sister Rose (Alexia Landau), Rose’s partner Manu (Alex Nahon) and Marion’s father Jeannot (Albert Delpy).

Three adults transplanted into a new cultural and linguistic environment offer scope for farce, evoking Woody Allen at the height of his New York period, but with a French flavour, hurtling along at breakneck speed, noisy, uninhibited, perceptive and threatening to disrupt Marion and Mingus’ tenuous relationship.

The film characterises American and French urban lifestyles and societal behaviours with Marion and Mingus as its core protagonists. Alas, their relationship is hard to believe in or find comfortable. That inhibits the film’s other elements in doing their principal task – convincing us of their credibility and comic validity. This is regrettable. The two societies in Delpy’s film deserve satirisation more than most.

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Dougal Macdonald

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