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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Julie Delpy’s 2 Days in New York

Neurotic characters, cataclysmic situations from a tender point of view is to be expected in this second volume which gos musical chairs on us heading to another mecca. Julie Delpy’s 2011 will first begin with the release of Skylab – a family comedy saga set over two days with flashbacks and then we get this film which confirms Chris Rock’s love for the French film. We generally liked volume one, and we have a soft-spot for any sequel that this actress is involved in (Three Colors, Before Sunset) and we like the tragi-relationship elements she likes to explore and the dialogue is normally her strong suit.

Eric Lavallée

Published on January 14, 2011

#34. 2 Days in New York

Director/Writer: Julie Delpy
Producers: Christophe Mazodier and Delpy
Distributor: Rights Available.

The Gist: 2 Days in New York 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.….(more)

Cast: Julie Delpy, Chris Rock and Dylan Baker

List Worthy Reasons…: Neurotic characters, cataclysmic situations from a tender point of view is to be expected in this second volume which gos musical chairs on us heading to another mecca. Julie Delpy’s 2011 will first begin with the release of Skylab – a family comedy saga set over two days with flashbacks before we get into this film which pretty much confirms Chris Rock’s love for the French film. We generally liked volume one, and we have a soft-spot for any sequel that this actress is involved in (Three Colors, Before Sunset) and we like the tragi-relationship elements she likes to explore and the dialogue is normally her strong suit.

Release Date/Status?: It doesn’t look ready for Berlin, where she preemed the original film so I imagine that this could find a slot in a fall film festival.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).