![]() ![]() The film is essentially a 90-minute dialogue between the two characters as they tour Paris. The couple have only an hour or so (the movie plays in neo-real time) before Jesse has to catch his flight back to America. ![]() He is unhappily married but devoted to his young child: "I feel like I'm running a small nursery with someone I used to date." Celine (Julie Delpy) is a political activist: a strong, independent woman with a confused emotional life. Jesse (Ethan Hawke) is now a moderately successful American writer, travelling through Europe to promote his new novel (about his tryst with Celine). Nearly a decade passes before the lovers meet again in a Paris bookshop in Before Sunset. Thus ended Linklater's 1995 film, Before Sunrise (1995). They didn't exchange phone numbers, but promised instead that they would both turn up in Vienna in six months' time. It only makes sense if you understand the backstory: nine years earlier, Jesse, a young American travelling around Europe, and Celine, a French student, met by chance on a train and spent a magical night in the Austrian capital. " This is a line from Richard Linklater's new film Before Sunset and it sounds like a piece of cornball dialogue from a Max Ophuls melodrama. 'W hy weren't you there in Vienna? Our lives would have been so different. ![]()
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