Before sunrise is a 1955 romantic drama film directed
by Richard
Linklater and written by Linklater and Kim Krizan. The film
follows
Jesse (Ethan Hawke), a young American, and Celine (Julie Delpy),
a young French woman, who meet on a train and disembark in Vienna,
where they spend the night walking around the city and getting to know
each other.
The plot is minimalist, since aside from walking and
talking, not
much happens. The two characters' ideas and
perspectives on life and
love are detailed. Jesse is a romantic
disguised as a cynic and Céline is seemingly a romantic, albeit with
some doubts. Taking
place over the course of one night, their limited
time together is
always on their minds, and leads to their
revealing more about
themselves than they normally would, since both
believe they will never
see one another again.
Jesse and Céline make an appearance in Linklater's 2001 film
waking life. A 2004 sequel, Before Sunset, picks up the story
nine years after the events of the first film, and a 2013 sequel,
Before Midnight, picks up the story eighteen years on.
This movie is so sweet :)
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