Before Sunset

In 1995 Richard Linklater made a little movie called Before Sunrise. It starred Ethan Hawk and Julie Deply as a couple of strangers who meet on a train. They spend the night wandering around Vienna killing time before Hawks character has to catch a flight back to the States. In this short space of time they fall in love, but run out of time to trade contact details.

More a conversation than a movie, Before Sunrise flowed like a well written poem, and drew the viewer into the conversation.

Now, 9 years later we have the sequel, this time set in Paris. A chance meeting lets the conversation start all over again – but this time they have only a few hours.

As dull as this movie may sound – two people walking around Paris talking – it is so well written, and the chemistry between Hawk and Deply is so real, that the movie hooks you in once again to discover if these two soul mates manage to make it work this time round.

A wonderfully romantic, philosophical movie.