2 Days in New York
Julie Delpy, Chris Rock
In addition to being the luminous star of such movies asBefore Sunrise and Before Sunset, Delpy is a longtime director and screenwriter who studied with the best of them at NYU. Her latest effort places her both behind and in front of the camera in an inconsistent but ultimately winning comedy about a pair of cozy Manhattanites who suffer a French invasion—namely, shower-averse relatives from abroad who come, it seems, just to embarrass them. The filmmaker’s own father plays a boisterous dad with no English, but Delpy’s ace in the hole is Rock, embodying the committed boyfriend with perfect exasperation.
