I really had high hopes for this film, and wanted to watch it with my lovely fiancee Kelly because we are both such big fans of BEFORE SUNRISE and BEFORE SUNSET, which this seemed to be a spiritual sequel too, but she couldn’t watch it because it is all handheld and too shaky for her, so I watched it on my own. And while I enjoyed it, the characters annoyed me more than made me love them (as had happened in the earlier films) and I couldn’t see why these two were really together to begin with. I just didn’t believe the relationship so much, and that made the film not so special.

Marion (Julie Delpy) and Jack (Adam Goldberg) are on a European Trip and heading to Paris before they return to New York to meet her family and for her to catch up with old friends, but things don’t go so well and start to draw them apart. She is a photographer, but on this vacation he annoyingly takes pictures of everything, and he seems to complain about everything. They meet her family, her mother Anna (Marie Pillet) who had a thing with Jim Morrison, Father Jeannot (Albert Delpy) and sister Rose (Aleksia Landeau), and things get off to a rocky start right away, especially when Jack learns she sent photos with him naked except a balloon tied to his genitals to the family, and it gets worse when he finds a similar photo of another guy in her apartment.

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And things get even rockier when all of Marion’s old ex’s show up, and are always texting her about sex, and seem to all want her back

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They eventually come back together, but the 2 very different people never seemed like they should have been together to begin with. They just didn’t have enough in common to me it seems.