[P]erfectly perfect... so charmingly simple a film, so absorbing and ambitious in its simplicity. I love, love, love this movie.
Before Sunset (2004)
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Reviews Counted:154
Fresh:145
Rotten:9
Average Rating:8.2/10
Consensus: Filled with engaging dialogue, Before Sunset is a witty, poignant romance, with natural chemistry between Hawke and Delpy.
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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Reviews for Before Sunset
For a film that's all talk and no action, it's a pretty romantic love story.
There's not much on the surface, for sure, but its undertow is seductive and ferocious.
Before Sunset is all talk, and audiences will be listening intently to every word of this smart romance
Before Sunset is a quiet, introspective little film that reverberates with more emotion and more human realness than any CGI enhanced cinematic event could ever hope to.
Romantic, real and as generous as it is vulnerable, the art of conversation has rarely been so acute, honest and revealing.
Deft at exposing the cracks in the psychological foundations we build for ourselves as we approach middle age.
The bad news is that Before Sunset is not as delirious an experience as its predecessor. The good news is that it's wonderful anyway, and in ways that tell us something about our romance with Before Sunrise.
A film that in its joy, optimism and aesthetic achievement keeps faith with American cinema at its finest.
The one thing I hope for after seeing “Before Sunset” is that Linklater and his stars will visit us again in eight or 10 years time
One of the most amazing aspects of "Before Sunset" is how conversation alone is made so suspenseful. If this movie were a book it would be described as a page-turner.
Though it is sometimes maddening, the movie's prodigious verbiage is also enthralling, precisely because of its casual disregard for the usual imperatives of screenwriting.
All told, [Linklater is] one of today's most versatile American filmmakers, and Before Sunset finds his light shining as brightly as ever.
The experiences they talk about are like so many sound-bites; they haven't internalized the wisdom that the words suggest.
Proves itself well worth the nine-year wait, and for a sequel so squarely rooted in the first film, it stands lightly on its own two feet.
Jesse and Celine come to life again in ways that are sad and beautiful, funny and profound.
Hawke's ruefulness seems more than earned here (and, thus, genuine); Delpy's callow winsomeness has ripened to a ruddy sheen.
We get completely self-absorbed discussions from a couple of frickin' actors.
They understand the rhythms of conversations with words less to enlighten than to draw each other closer, words for flirtation and seduction, rapturously romantic
In its own small way, 'Before Sunset' is a perfect film...there is not a single scene in this film that I would want to change or alter in any way.
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