Before Sunset

Year:	2004
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Drama, Romance
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	8.5 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	5 Have Seen


Director	Richard Linklater
Selected Cast	Ethan Hawke
	Julie Delpy
	Vernon Dobtcheff
	Louise Lemoine Torres

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Before Sunset - Warner Bros. - UK (2004)

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Before Sunset - Warner Home Video - France (2005)

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Antes Do Anoitecer - Warner Home Video - Portugal (2004)

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Magic Marmalade 14th Mar 2023		Rated 9/10 Meeting again sometime after their first encounter, which Ethan Hawke's character has recounted in a book he is promoting in Paris, they set off on another philosophical chat while they walk around the city... ... And having talk about a great deal of things, in the polite and awkward manner of friends who haven't seen each other in a while, and clearly want to say more than they are saying in words, they finally arrive at the more personal issues between them. ...Which is when this begins to become a proper movie in it's own right, rather than simply a sequel, or re-hash of the original... after all the first captured perfect, naïve, romantic magic which, like anything one may do in life, can only be done for the first time once :) - And if they simply tried to redo the original in this way, it would, because of this, have suffered by comparison. Instead, this one captures the later years, of having been deeply impacted by their first meeting, and finding that their lives since have been hooked around that time, and so the longing and nostalgia for a time long gone is the key note here, a little sadder, a little wiser, but just the thing to do to set against the original film. One point of particular note, that really sets this up a bar, is how it ends... You may have had that experience in movies where you find yourself thinking: "If they would just end it right here, that would be just great" ...But they seldom, if ever do. Except here, in this case, they do! Just at the perfect moment, and in the perfect way, it ends. Perfect. So my fears about seeing a sequel to what was essentially a perfect little movie have been greatly allayed, and now can't wait to find the final film in this trilogy: Before Midnight (This has got to be a rarity, if not unique in this genre: A romantic trilogy? - Often Romance is defined by tragedy, which tends to preclude sequels: Romeo And Juliet, Titanic, The Terminator etc.) Superb. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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