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01/26/06
Before Sunrise (1995)
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Reviews Counted: 33 Fresh: 33 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Synopsis: Director Richard Linklater continues his streak of films that take place over the course of one day (after SLACKER and DAZED AND CONFUSED) with this romantic tale of two twenty-somethings who meet each other on a train headed to Vienna. Jesse (Ethan Hawke) is a self-involved American with a... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
Director: Richard Linklater
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While it's a bit awkward and self-indulgent, it also creates two extremely vivid characters and one of cinema's more believable romances.
07/11/04
Hawke and Delpy keep the tone not only afloat but mesmerizing. So natural are their performances that it seems impossible not to believe they truly are soulmates who are locked in a doomed, all-too-short affair.
06/16/06
Inspired by Godard's lyrical film-essays, Linklater revisits his unreleased debut (also set on a train), while paying tribute to Rohmer's cerebral moral fables. Though narrower in scope, this film is more mature and generous than previous efforts.
04/29/06
Linklater hasn’t crafted a detached portrait of a unique couple, but a masterful examination of human nature, of that relationship we all want, but too often see slip away.
01/20/05
É como testemunhar duas pessoas se apaixonando uma pela outra em tempo real: algo simultaneamente mágico, comovente e de partir o coração.
09/26/04
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While the couple get...philosophical in their courtship dance, 'Before Sunrise' maintains an awareness of their earnestness without itself putting on airs of profundity.
06/08/04
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