A Week In Film #008: Ich bin ein Berliner (oh nein!)

A Simple Plan
I was in a Sam Raimi mood. This one’s an adaptation of a novel by Scott Smith, about a plane full of cash crashing in a snowy Minnesota backwoods. Its arrival provides a moral quandary for the man who finds it, an honest Joe by the name of Hank Mitchell (Bill Paxton), and cracks soon develop in the relationships between him, his simple-minded brother Jakob (Billy Bob Thornton), and Jakob’s drunken bum friend Lou (Brent Briscoe).

2 Days In Paris
A pleasant little chalk-and-cheese romantic comedy, written, directed and starring Julie Delpy as a French photographer taking a short pitstop in her home town with her American boyfriend. Well, it’s not really a romcom, it’s more just looking at the different perspectives and objectives that people hold on or work towards in relationships, notably those of the optimistic Marion (Delpy) and the pessimistic Jack (Adam Goldberg). Both leads are very watchable, though Jack isn’t really given much to do other than be a neurotic New York Jew. The bits where Jack comes to realise that Marion was maybe being a little conservative when telling him about the ‘few’ boyfriends she’s had in the past made I ROFL though, as did her mother popping in with the laundry.

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