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Before Sunset (2004)

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Reviews Counted:38

Fresh:37

Rotten:1

Average Rating:8.4/10

Consensus: Filled with engaging dialogue, Before Sunset is a witty, poignant romance, with natural chemistry between Hawke and Delpy.

Rated: R

Runtime: 80 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Jul 2, 2004 Limited

Box Office: $5,563,693

Synopsis: When Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) met on a Eurail train, the connection between them was immediate and profound. The 14-hour relationship that followed, as the pair explored the... When Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) met on a Eurail train, the connection between them was immediate and profound. The 14-hour relationship that followed, as the pair explored the spontaneous and unexpected in Vienna, ended on a train platform where they swore they'd meet again six months later. Nine years have passed since that morning. On the last stop of his book tour, at the tail end of a reading in a Paris book shop, Jesse finds Celine watching from the back of the room. She lives in Paris now, he in New York. He's flying out that evening and they utilize every moment, finding their human connection no less vital, inspiring or real than it was in nine years ago in Vienna. In a stimulating and revealing journey through Paris, in real time, these two individuals explore the inner workings of their hearts and minds and rediscover their rare yet powerful love for the unexpected, the unrehearsed, and each other. Warner Independent Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment present a sequel to the acclaimed 1995 film Before Sunrise. Directed by Richard Linklater, the visionary behind such films as Dazed and Confused and Waking Life, BEFORE SUNSET tells the timeless romantic story of two questing hearts and minds whose powerful bond defies time and place. -- © Warner Independent [More]

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy

Director: Richard Linklater

Director: Richard Linklater
Screenwriter: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater
Producer: Richard Linklater, Anne Walker-McBay
Studio: Warner Independent

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  • Nine years ago, two strangers met by chance, spent a night together in Vienna, and parted before sunrise. Now, they're about to cross paths again - in Paris -- where they will get the chance we all wish we had?
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    Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are a rare case of two movies that rightfully demand yet another sequel.

    Full Review Source: New Yorker | comment Comment
    08/01/04
    David Denby
    David Denby
    New Yorker
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    Mr. Linklater and his two creative leads have managed a miraculous transformation of the characters from once-callow lovers into grown-ups teetering on the edge of eternity.

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    07/23/04
    Andrew Sarris
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    New York Observer
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    The chemistry between Jesse and Celine --- and Hawke and Delpy and, for that matter, Linklater --- is as immediate as it is appealing.

    Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
    07/15/04
    Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
    Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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    Allows you to watch two deeply engaged and engaging performers moving verbally through delicately negotiated layers of delight, apprehension, desire and surrender.

    Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
    07/09/04
    Geoff Pevere
    Geoff Pevere
    Toronto Star
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    Hawke and Delpy are credited with writing some of the dialogue, presumably as improvisations. They manage to be both natural and intense, and their characters feel real, even if the situation does not.

    Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
    07/09/04
    Bruce Westbrook
    Bruce Westbrook
    Houston Chronicle
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    A simply amazing film -- touching, sexy, smart, sad and, beyond all, passionate about the value of time and love.

    Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
    07/09/04
    Tom Long
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    N/R

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    07/09/04
    Arizona Republic
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    How often does a visual medium make such an elegant argument about the beauty of language, even as it asserts its right to tell a story and move us with its vision?

    Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
    07/09/04
    Lisa Kennedy
    Lisa Kennedy
    Denver Post
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    For my money, Sunset tops the first installment because it involves characters who have more life under their belts. Nothing like a few years to clarify a personality.

    Full Review Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News | comment Comment
    07/09/04
    Robert Denerstein
    Robert Denerstein
    Denver Rocky Mountain News
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    For all its modesty, lingers in the mind like an unresolved relationship or a life-altering, if random, moment.

    Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
    07/09/04
    Terry Lawson
    Terry Lawson
    Detroit Free Press
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    A fictional romance with a factual feel, a near-documentary quality that makes it difficult to distinguish the actor from the role.

    Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
    07/09/04
    Rick Groen
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    Globe and Mail
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    If you didn't like Before Sunrise, filmmaker Richard Linklater says, you'll hate Before Sunset. But if you treasured the original, you're sure to prize the 'romance for realists' sequel.

    Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
    07/08/04
    Jane Sumner
    Jane Sumner
    Dallas Morning News
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    A savvy sequel that should speak to anyone who's let that one great love slip away.

    Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
    07/07/04
    Eddie Cockrell
    Eddie Cockrell
    Variety
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    A small masterpiece.

    Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
    07/06/04
    Peter Rainer
    Peter Rainer
    New York Magazine
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    Having seen Before Sunset twice, and Before Sunrise again in between, I can't say which film is better. Both seem to fulfill an ambition Jean-Luc Godard expressed in the 60s -- to achieve 'the definitive by chance.'

    Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
    07/03/04
    Jonathan Rosenbaum
    Jonathan Rosenbaum
    Chicago Reader
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    Before Sunrise captures the exhilaration of connecting with another person; Before Sunset moves forward from there, burrowing into territory that's more complex and dangerous, but also perhaps more vital.

    Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
    07/03/04
    Stephanie Zacharek
    Stephanie Zacharek
    Salon.com
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    The incessant jawboning of Before Sunset is all foreplay and no climax.

    Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
    07/02/04
    Michael O'Sullivan
    Michael O'Sullivan
    Washington Post
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    Before Sunset has an easy, unforced air about it, mostly because of what seems to be a real rapport between the two lead actors.

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    07/02/04
    Ann Hornaday
    Ann Hornaday
    Washington Post
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    It eats at you, just like renewed love.

    Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
    07/02/04
    Mike Clark
    Mike Clark
    USA Today
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    It has earthy (and therefore sexy) urban locations, a splendid originality of voice, a loose and distinctive visual style, and it sends audiences out humming with the realness and beauty of it all. ... But it should have been twice as long.

    Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
    07/02/04
    Mick LaSalle
    Mick LaSalle
    San Francisco Chronicle
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