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Before Sunset (2004)

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Reviews Counted:154

Fresh:145

Rotten:9

Average Rating:8.2/10

Consensus: Filled with engaging dialogue, Before Sunset is a witty, poignant romance, with natural chemistry between Hawke and Delpy.

Rated: 15

Runtime: 80 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:23-07-2004

Synopsis: When Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) met on a Eurail train, the connection between them was immediate and profound. The 14-hour relationship that followed, as the pair explored the... When Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) met on a Eurail train, the connection between them was immediate and profound. The 14-hour relationship that followed, as the pair explored the spontaneous and unexpected in Vienna, ended on a train platform where they swore they'd meet again six months later. Nine years have passed since that morning. On the last stop of his book tour, at the tail end of a reading in a Paris book shop, Jesse finds Celine watching from the back of the room. She lives in Paris now, he in New York. He's flying out that evening and they utilize every moment, finding their human connection no less vital, inspiring or real than it was in nine years ago in Vienna. In a stimulating and revealing journey through Paris, in real time, these two individuals explore the inner workings of their hearts and minds and rediscover their rare yet powerful love for the unexpected, the unrehearsed, and each other. Warner Independent Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment present a sequel to the acclaimed 1995 film Before Sunrise. Directed by Richard Linklater, the visionary behind such films as Dazed and Confused and Waking Life, BEFORE SUNSET tells the timeless romantic story of two questing hearts and minds whose powerful bond defies time and place. -- © Warner Independent [More]

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy

Director: Richard Linklater

Director: Richard Linklater
Screenwriter: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater
Producer: Richard Linklater, Anne Walker-McBay
Studio: Warner Independent

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The best movie of the year so far.

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
07/16/04
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

This 80-minute reverie unfolds like a piece of emotional origami into a seductive, playful and engaging bit of conversational foreplay.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
07/15/04
Duane Dudek
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A jaw-droppingly beautiful and moving film, as defining a moment for its generation as its predecessor.

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly | comment Comment
07/15/04
Josh Bell
Josh Bell
Las Vegas Weekly

The chemistry between Jesse and Celine --- and Hawke and Delpy and, for that matter, Linklater --- is as immediate as it is appealing.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
07/15/04
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A verbose, invigorating gem. There hasn’t been a brighter, better, more spry and alive relationship picture in years.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | comment Comment
07/13/04
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

A fluid, engaging, charming, frustrating, funny, and lively movie.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
07/11/04
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

Some laughs, some tears, a wonderful song and an absolutely perfect ending.

Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal | comment Comment
07/10/04
Kevin N. Laforest
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

Allows you to watch two deeply engaged and engaging performers moving verbally through delicately negotiated layers of delight, apprehension, desire and surrender.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
07/09/04
Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star

By the end, you are either in love again or you never were.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
07/09/04
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

Says more about the mystery of love and attachment than any overblown Hollywood romance that comes to mind.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
07/09/04
Karen Karbo
Karen Karbo
Oregonian

You don't need to have seen Before Sunrise to appreciate Before Sunset, but as a one-two cinematic punch on the subjects of love and aging these films have few equals.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
07/09/04
Robert W. Butler
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star

Consists of a conversation, albeit a complex one that covers work, romantic love, sex, yearning, memory, commitment, compromise, coincidence, disappointment, passion, men, women, the passage of time and songwriting.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
07/09/04
Liz Braun
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

Hawke and Delpy are credited with writing some of the dialogue, presumably as improvisations. They manage to be both natural and intense, and their characters feel real, even if the situation does not.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
07/09/04
Bruce Westbrook
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle

A simply amazing film -- touching, sexy, smart, sad and, beyond all, passionate about the value of time and love.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
07/09/04
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News

Its perfection can be summed up in one line: 'I like that. It's more real.'

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
07/09/04
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
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07/09/04
Arizona Republic
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How often does a visual medium make such an elegant argument about the beauty of language, even as it asserts its right to tell a story and move us with its vision?

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
07/09/04
Lisa Kennedy
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post

For my money, Sunset tops the first installment because it involves characters who have more life under their belts. Nothing like a few years to clarify a personality.

Full Review Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News | comment Comment
07/09/04
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News

For all its modesty, lingers in the mind like an unresolved relationship or a life-altering, if random, moment.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
07/09/04
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
 
 
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