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Before Sunset, 2004

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy

Directed by: Richard Linklater

Written by: Julie Delpy

Language: English, French

Country: USA

Runtime: 80 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:8.0

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The mood of Before Sunset is contemplative, sincere, and bittersweet. The plot centers around lovers reunited, themes of unfulfillment, and love and romance. It is a drama, independent, and romance movie. Stylistically, Before Sunset is talky. In approach, it is realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. Before Sunset is set in Paris. It happens in contemporary times. The movie is known for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Before Sunset is especially suggested for a girls' night and a date night. Note that it includes sexual content and profanity.

Summary of Before Sunset

Nine years ago, director Richard Linklater's BEFORE SUNRISE introduced American twentysomething Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and French twentysomething Celine (Julie Delpy). The two met on a train to Vienna, and spent the night together wandering around the city, talking, and falling for each other. They parted ways, vowing to meet in Vienna in six months. Linklater's latest film, BEFORE SUNSET, picks up where the 1994 film left off. In Paris promoting a novel he has written about their one perfect night together (the two were never reunited), Jesse is dumbfounded when Celine shows up at his last bookstore interview. With just a few hours remaining before his flight back to the States, Jesse and Celine meander through Paris, returning in no time at all to their playful banter, flirtation, and intense conversations about life, love, and the state of the world. Although the sexual tension is palpable, Jesse is married--albeit unhappily--and has a young son, and Celine has a boyfriend. Are these thirtysomethings really soul mates, or ships destined to keep passing in the night? Perhaps only screenwriter Linklater, along with Delpy and Hawke who contributed to the insightful, believable dialogue, know for sure.

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Language:	English, French
Country:	USA
Release date:	3 April 2004
Runtime:	80 min

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Ethan Hawke

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Julie Delpy

as Celine

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Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in Before Sunset (2004)

Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in Before Sunset (2004)

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in Before Sunset (2004)

Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in Before Sunset (2004)

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The Hollywood Reporter

This is one of the most wildly romantic movies in ages. Full Review

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by: Kirk Honeycutt

Entertainment Weekly

The new film, which unfolds in real time over the course of 80 minutes, is a deeper, darker, altogether more memorable experience. It doesn't extend the characters so much as fulfill them. Full Review

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by: Owen Gleiberman

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This was probably one of the worst movies I have seen in years. Unauthentic characters and a b-movie dialog only a teenager could enjoy. I saw this with my wife and we first thought the horrible dialog and acting was intentional and the real story... Read and rate it

21.March.2009
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by: jenstellefsen
jenstellefsen rated this movie0/10

A servicable companion piece to 'Before Sunrise', but lacking the true magic of the performances. Hawke and Delpy are still pure gold, but the in-the-moment feeling is gone. Just like in real life, you can't make the magic happen a second time. The... Read and rate it

20.March.2009
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by: sethdellinger
sethdellinger rated this movie0/10

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