Before Sunset (double bill with Before Sunrise)
Nine years after 'Before Sunrise' and Jesse (Hawke) is in Paris on the final leg of a book tour promoting his debut novel. The book's plot concerns that night in Vienna hanging out with Celine (Julie Delpy) and the attendant press corps asks what fans of director Richard Linklater's 1995 film have wanted to know for nigh on a decade. Did the couple meet six months later as arranged? Did they copulate under the stars? And what ever did happen to these two? 'Before Sunset' is proof that practice can make perfect. Linklater not only tackles the loose ends of the original with imaginative aplomb but he also works hard to make the movie work as a standalone essay on how adolescent hope inevitably gives way to disappointment with the encroaching realisation that life may just be a big pile of shite. Linklater's sucker punch, however, is the killer ending.
- Duration: 80
- Certificate: 15
- Director: Richard Linklater
- Stars: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
- Year: 2004
- Country of origin: US
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