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As strangers
they witnessed an argument between a husband and wife in a train.
They talked.
And by sunrise they had each made an indelible mark upon the
other's soul. Jesse, an American
college student from Texas, traveling around Europe on a rail
pass, killing time.
Celine, a French college student taking a train home to Paris
from visiting her grandmother in Budapest.
Thus unfolds the events of
Before Sunrise,
a beautiful, soulful movie about the importance of connection in
relationships. It's not about love, necessarily, but about
what is truly at the heart of love, what many people
forget, and what so few of us actually talk about. Richard
Linklater has directed a simplistically beautiful
vision of a script crafted by himself and Kim Krizan that ends
ambiguously...and for almost ten years we
were left to wonder...what happened?
In Before Sunset,
we get the answer. And like so many answers when it comes
to true relationships,
it opens up more questions, more emotion, and in the process
becomes a more honest look at humanity in
romance than any movie before it. Before Sunset is
Sunrise all grown up, and it hits at the core. This
time,
the screenplay is by Linklater and actors Julie Delpy and Ethan
Hawke, and the action takes place in real-time. Instead of a whole night, the characters get about
an hour and twenty minutes together. Because of
that, there's a heightened sense of urgency, of a desperate
need, and this drives the movie in quite a
different fashion than its predecessor. |
