Love hurts in '2 Days in Paris'.(Life-Scene)(Movie review)

Byline: ROGER EBERT - Universal Press Syndicate

I once gave flowers to a French girl and was told they were "flagrant." When Marion, the character played by Julie Delpy in "2 Days in Paris," makes mistakes like that, she knows what she's doing. Her relationship with her lover, Jack, is coming apart at the seams. The movie covers the end of a European vacation that was intended to mend their relationship but the holiday has gone badly. Sometimes when you want to know, really know somebody, you find out that actually you'd rather not.

Jack (Adam Goldberg) had a bad time in Venice. How can that be? Was it Woody Allen who said the worst sex he ever had wasn't …