"Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset"

Posted by rico (A) on March 2, 2005 at 06:05:53

These are best viewed back to back, with "...Sunrise" first. In it, a twentysomething American male (Ethan Hawke) meets a twentysomething French girl (Judy Delfy) on a train in Austria. After they converse and have coffee, he convinces her to get off with him in Vienna, where he is catch a flight home the next morning, rather than her continuing on to her home in Paris. They spend the better part of a day and the whole night together, parting the next morning. As they do, they agree to meet back in Vienna in six months, although they don't know each other's last names or addresses.

The second film, "...Sunset" takes place nine years later. He has written a book about their hours together and is finishing up a book tour in Paris. The girl appears and they go off again, wandering the streets of that beautiful romantic city before his flight home that evening.

Bith films are filled with meandering conversations which at times seems very real. Hawke and Delfy actually wrote the dialog for the second film. Each one, particularly the second one, has long scenes of uninterrupted talk while walking and visiting various bistros along the way. And both end ambiguously. leaving the viewer to conject as to what happens next. Both are very romantic, realistic, and enjoyable.

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Topic - "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset" - rico 06:05:53 03/02/05 (18)

Ethan Hawke: one of the worst young guns who is aging - tinear 08:02:42 03/02/05 (5)

Re: Ethan Hawke: one of the worst young guns who is aging - rico 14:29:44 03/02/05 (0)

Re: Ethan Hawke: one of the worst young guns who is aging - PdL 14:07:47 03/02/05 (0)

Re: " He blew it with her ".... - patrickU 11:09:34 03/02/05 (2)

I forgot you're from the country whose inhabitants invented - tinear 12:38:36 03/02/05 (1)

Re: Pas une mauvaise invention, hein Tin? nt - patrickU 12:50:04 03/02/05 (0)

Hated it with every cell in my body - Victor Khomenko 07:38:50 03/02/05 (9)

Re: Hated it with every cell in my body - Analog Scott 10:18:21 03/02/05 (1)

cost of two movie tickets $16.00; popcorn and drinks for Vic and the wife $9.00 - jaiva 15:18:11 03/03/05 (0)

Re: Dreck? - patrickU 09:56:16 03/02/05 (6)

Re: Dreck? - rico 10:09:02 03/02/05 (1)

Re: Dreck? - patrickU 10:51:45 03/02/05 (0)

Yiddish for enormous piece of shit...heheheh - ToshiroMeyers 10:05:49 03/02/05 (3)

Re: Yiddish for enormous piece of shit...heheheh - TopPop 16:59:06 03/02/05 (1)

Re: Yiddish for enormous piece of shit...heheheh - patrickU 04:05:22 03/03/05 (0)

Re: See my post above...Cher Tosh... - patrickU 10:55:15 03/02/05 (0)

Fell in love too... - ToshiroMeyers 06:13:46 03/02/05 (1)

Re: Yes - rico 07:17:00 03/02/05 (0)

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