Crazy like a fox

She's so bright, this Julie Delpy character. I've just watched Two Days in Paris, a film she wrote, directed and composed music for...and I think its somewhat autobiographical. It's the funniest movie on love I've seen in a long time, horribly funny in the way that only truth can be. It makes me think she had far more do with the script of Before Sunrise, than was let on, that Richard Linklater is probably forever indebted to her. What I liked best about this film is its intelligent banter and and how it frequently laughs at the more ridiculous and torturous aspects of love -- the ways in which we want to posess each other, how reluctant we are to really know the people we love. It is also an intensely political film in some ways - ploughing as it does into every racial stereotype, contrasting European artistic freedom with American piety and laughing darkly at male sexual jealousy. Delpy plays Marion, a Parisienne now living in New York with her American boyfriend (Adam Goldberg). They're visiting Paris for two days and the stream of Marion's exboyfriends and her flirtatious nature sets jealousy going like a fat gold watch. Marion doesn't quite see the problem, you end up sympathising with the slightly hypochondriacal, sad clown character that Goldberg so brilliantly becomes.
I also like how her character always holds up the mundane problems of love against the larger problems in the world. That appeals to me a lot. The ability to appreciate scale when it comes to problems, romantic or otherwise, is vastly underestimated, come to think of it. There's a gem of a scene which she talks about in an interview -where Marion is agonising about men one minute and the next minute, she's worried because she has read that women use four times more toilet paper than men.. "And now I think of everything we destroy," she says, all the while crying...
Pretty crazy, but rang true to me.