Chris Rock, who already has a penchant for Euro cinema (he adapted the Rohmer film which gave us I Think I Love My Wife) will get to ask his director and co-lead Julie Delpy about working with the likes of Leos Carax, Schlöndorff and Krzysztof Kieslowski. Rock has been cast to play the American boyfriend role in the sequel to Delpy’s 2 Days in Paris. Titled 2 Days in New York, (Deply told us in an interview that she loves Woody Allen’s Manhattan) the basic premise sees Delpy’s character Marion having to juggle career, kids, ex-boyfriends and her current African American squeeze. The ex-boyfriend in this case, is not Adam Goldberg, but a French former flame — perhaps in the Romain Duris vein.
Last we heard, Goldberg was going to be a “no show” for this engagement, but perhaps Delpy revised her draft to include him, perhaps in a throwaway cameo scene at the beginning of this film. Delpy’s real life father in Albert Delpy for a second outing. Her mother Marie Pillet passed away last year.
Synopsis: This centres again on French woman Marion (Delpy), who has broken up with Jack and now lives in New York with their children. Her Parisian family come to visit her, but the cultural differences between her eccentric father and new American boyfriend will turn out to be explosive. Meanwhile, her sister has had the “good” idea of bringing an ex-boyfriend from Paris and there is the pressure of an upcoming photography exhibition.
