Before Sunset
2004 Directed by Richard Linklater
Synopsis
What if you had a second chance with the one that got away?
Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.
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There's a moment about halfway through Before Sunset that I can't get out of my mind. Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) are sitting in a Parisian café, and she lights up a cigarette. He's got the demeanor of a man who has quit smoking against his will (probably at the behest of a significant other, whom I'm guessing broke his spirit with the subtlest "I just want you to be healthy" psychological warfare imaginable), so he steals a quick glance at the carcinogenic happiness hanging from Delpy's lips. And then... there's this look that comes across his face. Richard Linklater doesn't draw any attention to it, and it's so brief that you might miss it. But it's a…
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Oh how I dreaded this. Having recently seen Before Sunrise for the first time and completely fallen in love with it, I kind of wished for there to be no sequels. And not only did Linklater make Sunset, there's a third coming this summer as well!
As it turns out, I'll be queuing up for the third one at my local cinema.Seeing the two again, nine years down the road is akin to seeing old friends whome you haven't seen in a long time. You know the ones, those who you forever have the same chemistry with, and you never get estranged from.
The actors have matured, and their relationship, if you could call it that, has morphed into… -
1. Σας ορκίζομαι ότι αυτά τα πράγματα γι νο νται.
2 Τη σκηνή στο Renault, κανείς δε σκέφτηκε να την κάνει διαφήμιση της Renault.
3. Το σημείο που βγαίνουν με το αυτοκίνητο στο δρόμο δίπλα στο Σηκουάνα, είναι ακριβώς το σημείο που η Φραντσίνι μοίραζε τη Herald Tribune.
4. Το μόνο ενοχλητικό-και το καταλαβαίνω τώρα-είναι ότι παράλληλα με αυτούς μεγαλώνω κι εγώ. -
Set nine years after Before Sunrise (1995), but like Jesse says early on in the film, it doesn't feel any time has past. But that's probably because I started watching this right after I finished Sunrise. In reality, Jesse is now a best-selling author and married with a child while Celine has become an environmental activist. Linklater takes a risk by deciding to shoot this one in real-time, but that results in the tone being even more in the moment that the last, and that alone is an accomplishment. Just like before, Linklater uses the setting, this time Paris, as a glorious reflection of the natural wonder of their time together.
Watching both films back-to-back was a splendid decision because…
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Wonderful. I knew people had said it but I still wouldn't believe that Linklater could succesfully follow up Before Sunrise. But man, you better believe it. Time flies by with these people, not characters because they feel so real.
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'Before Sunset' should in theory be a bad film. Its predecessor, 'Before Sunrise', is so successful in making the viewer truly care about its characters that this film really needed to pan out the lives of Jesse and Celine perfectly to avoid certain disaster. Part of the charm of 'Sunrise' is its ambiguity, and so finally seeing how things turned out for its characters was slightly worrisome; thankfully Linklater handles the reunification without unnecessary drama or romanticism, making this film a much more realistic if not as endearing watch.
Despite my somewhat disparaging review of 'Sunrise', I do consider it to be the superior film out of the two, but that is by no means a criticism of 'Sunset', which…
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A charming feature that could have been from Rohmer, but here the audience has to be intelligent at the very least, like a shrink who can see beyond classic patterns in order to identify the true individual signs. The story is filmed in real time, using often long sequence shots and by not using shot reverse shots: dialogue can't be here improvised, even if they ring true since the performers wrote most of it.
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Just as good the second time around as the first. I'm still not sure whether or not I like this or Before Sunrise better, but regardless both are great films. Can't wait for Before Midnight (will be seeing it tomorrow!).
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1. Σας ορκίζομαι ότι αυτά τα πράγματα γι νο νται.
2 Τη σκηνή στο Renault, κανείς δε σκέφτηκε να την κάνει διαφήμιση της Renault.
3. Το σημείο που βγαίνουν με το αυτοκίνητο στο δρόμο δίπλα στο Σηκουάνα, είναι ακριβώς το σημείο που η Φραντσίνι μοίραζε τη Herald Tribune.
4. Το μόνο ενοχλητικό-και το καταλαβαίνω τώρα-είναι ότι παράλληλα με αυτούς μεγαλώνω κι εγώ. -
Het vervolg op 'Before Sunrise' is net zo fantastisch!
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this film is the sequel that should and should not have never been done, it is that strange case where a movie manages to disappoint and exceed expectations.
if you add the movie’s predecessor [BEFORE SUNRISE] to TAPE you will end with this film, it is a real time story that reminisces of that first movie we all loved.
if you ask me this film disappoints for the reason i just said, it reminds us too much of familiar tales but one cannot deny how happy it is to see those two characters back.
both JULIE DELPY and ETHAN HAWKE deliver equally great performances that their first time around with the slight difference that their characters show more maturity.
if you like the first, you will like the second; if you love the first, you will most likely love this as well. -
I've never seen something like Before Sunset.
It's surreal so real it's. I can't talk about performances, because there are none. What I see is two actors talking about their feelings, not pretending anything.
Well, or that's just what I like to believe.
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Builds effortlessly on what started in ..SUNRISE. Hawke & Delpy are enchanting. Wonderful. Again. #see
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If ‘Sunrise’ was a beginning, ‘Sunset’ is nothing short of an astoundingly inspired ‘with you all’ examination of the audience mindset, expectations, and just how much two people can grow in nine years.
The two characters slip seamlessly back into their involved repertoire of walk and talk, divulging on their advanced views on love, marriage, and cynicism. Where once we had two naive travelers, open whole-heartedly to the idea of spontaneous love and the combustion of passion; here lays two true adults, jaded by the one night they gave themselves away.
It's absolutely magical. Not in the same budding manner it was the first time around. This time, it's for real. We believe these people have a grasp on their…