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2 Days in New York2012 | 96 min | R
Without a doubt, Chris Rock is one of the funniest men alive. He’s an ace stand-up and astute social commentator, a vibrant performer with a lightning wit and agreeable vulgarity. However, there’s always been one thing that’s eluded Rock since he began his career, and that’s big screen comfort. He’s not a natural actor. Despite a filmography that’s spanned 25 years, Rock has never delivered extraordinary work, even under the direction of some of the greats. What “2 Days in New York” represents to Rock’s career is a breakthrough of sorts, with filmmaker/star Julie Delpy managing to massage out most of Rock’s habitual stiffness, guiding the comedian to his first satisfying performance. 
After a touchy breakup with her boyfriend and the father of her young son, Marion (Julie Delpy) has found love and marriage with Mingus (Chris Rock), a radio talk show host with his own daughter. Settling into life in New York City, the family is overwhelmed by a visit from Marion’s Parisian father Jeannot (Albert Delpy), her sister Rose (Alexia Landeau), and Rose’s boyfriend Manu (Alexandre Nahon). Excited to be in America, the French trio stampede all over Marion and Mingus’s domestic habits, interrupting their parenting and sex life, while Manu welcomes drug dealers into the home, also trying to win Mingus’s favor by sharing his love for African-American culture. Frustrated, Marion attempts to corral the bad habits of her family the best she can, also working on a critical photography show where she plans to sell her soul to the highest bidder. “2 Days in New York” is a sequel, a rare art-house event, continuing a story established by Delpy in 2007’s “2 Days in Paris,” which co-starred Adam Goldberg. The follow-up finds Marion in the throes of martial routine, building a cozy life with Mingus and her two children, working to an artistic peak with a show devoted to bedroom photographs highlighting a string of ex-boyfriends, with the soul contract a conceptual gimmick used to attract attention. She’s a blur of activity, but satisfied, creating a foundation with Mingus that’s about to be tested with her family’s arrival. 
The plot promises an anarchic presentation, and Delpy (along with co-writer Landeau) delivers big on comedic chaos, making excellent use of language barriers and European sensibilities to molest the relative peace of the couple’s American ways. It’s a simple tale of misunderstandings and embarrassments, yet Delpy manages to find a wonderful timing, keeping the characters in perpetual motion to accentuate the invasion of privacy, with her real-life father, Albert Delpy, a true force of nature, stomping around the frame with Parisian abandon, creating an endearing personality of poorly articulated mischief. “2 Days in New York” is an alert movie, always on the go, supporting laughs with pure energy, freshening stale concepts such as unintentional racism and unrelenting French behavior. Delpy is an interesting conductor of claustrophobic commotion, keeping the feature observant, tuned into the eccentricities of the participants. As previously mentioned, “2 Days in New York” brings out something extra from Rock, who snaps easily into the puzzle of the picture. Although the character isn’t far from Rock’s own personality, the performance is fluid enough to compete with demands of intimacy found with Delpy (they have satisfactory chemistry) and the pronounced silliness of the supporting cast. It’s not extraordinary work, but relaxed enough to notice, with the comedian hitting a few improvisational moments of his own as Mingus enjoys long conversations with a cardboard cutout of Barack Obama. Delpy is equally agreeable, sustaining Marion’s exasperation as she faces a return of French habits and tense familial interactions, creating a natural progression of anxiety that only feels alien when she’s lost in her art-world aspiration, punctuated by a cameo by Vincent Gallo as himself. 
Delpy can’t quite sustain the perfect storm of neuroses and confusion all the way to the end, but the majority of “2 Days in New York” captures intended pandemonium with care. It’s a bright, funny picture from the emerging director, who funnels a great deal of personal knowledge into her work, and that comfort shines on-screen. Starring: Julie Delpy, Chris Rock, Kate Burton, Dylan Baker, Daniel Brühl Director: Julie Delpy » See full cast & crew |
 
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