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I want to say the movie was not what I expected, though I’m not sure what that expectation would have been. It was Julie Delpy and there was lots of talking on the streets of Paris, which sounds like another film but wasn’t. The tone of the film was much more off-beat, not at all similar to the tense sexy romance of “Before Sunset.” It even had a Woody Allen-esque quality, which seems almost like a fault but was carried off well by Adam Goldberg. The movie was hilarious and enjoyable but it lacked any resonance, which I felt was supposed to be imposed on us by Delpy’s occasional voice-overs which often went on a few minutes too long.

There is something to be said though, about watching a dysfunction couple, a couple that somehow stay together against all odds, the type that you watch and think “God, they deserve on another.” It gives you the sense that there might in fact be someone for everyone, no matter how neurotic or insane they might be.