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Before Sunset

2004

Richard Linklater

Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff, Rodolphe Pauly ...

7.3

40,745

Romance. Drama Jesse and Celine - the main characters in Richard Linklater's film, "Before Sunrise" - once met in Vienna and spent a night together roaming the empty streets of this city. Now, almost ten years on, they meet up once more - this time in Paris. Jesse and Celine first met by chance on a train where they discovered their immediate liking for each other. Fourteen hours later, they parted on the platform of Vienna's main station, promising ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"This is one of the most wildly romantic movies in ages"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The script of 'Before Sunset' is both rambling and self-conscious, and at times it has the self-important sound of clever writing. But though it is sometimes maddening, the movie's prodigious verbiage is also enthralling"	POS
United States	Eddie Cockrell Variety	"A savvy sequel that should speak to anyone who's let that one great love slip away"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"In its performances, direction, and script (...) it's so perfectly conceived and executed that you may be hanging on every word and gesture."	POS
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"Deploying the camera in a way that's intimate without being intrusive, the filmmakers give viewers the sense of walking along with the couple (...) [It] has an easy, unforced air"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"There is something uniquely unforgettable in the way Linklater, Hawke and Delpy (equal collaborators on the script) find nuance, art and eroticism in words, spoken and unspoken (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The film feels like it exists in real time (...) 'Before Sunset' is a remarkable achievement in several ways, most obviously in its technical skill (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"This is a romance with minimal physical contact and sex--and that's part of what makes it work so well as a love story"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"Linklater and his actors (who get co-screenwriting credit) allow the conversation to curlicue effortlessly from literate banter to matters of the heart"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[A] charming and affecting sequel (...) It's the date movie of the summer."	POS
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"An intelligent, engagingly honest study of love lost and, just maybe, regained (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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