rating:
(out of
4 stars)United States, Australia, Switzerland; 1995
Directed by Richard Linklater; produced by Anna Walker-McBay; written by Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan
Starring Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert, Hanna Pöschl, Karl Bruckschwaiger, Tex Rubinowitz
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
'Before Sunrise' is one of the sweetest films I have seen. It is romantic
and it could have been based on a real story from someone. It never seems to
try too hard to make it romantic, funny, entertaining; it just is. Two
strangers, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy), meet on a train to
Vienna. He is an American, she is French. They talk, they like each other.
He suggests she leaves the train with him in Vienna, instead of traveling
further to France, to spend some time together. The time they have is an
evening, a night and a morning. They walk through Vienna and talk a lot
more. They really like each other. The time is pushing, what should they do?
The film consists out of a lot of interesting conversation and a lot of
sweet moments. The best one comes in a listening booth. They listen to a
record together and once in a while they look at each other. Every single
time one looks, the other quickly looks away. It is one of the sweetest
single scenes I have ever seen. The performances here, but basically all the
time, are perfect. The more time they spend together the more you want these
people to understand they belong together, but what will they do? There is a
train to catch. The ending is the right one and I do not think another
ending would have been satisfying. Now there is a 'Before Sunset' so you can
guess certain little things, but what happens exactly is for you to find
out. I can just say director Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' will not
spoil your time. 'Before Sunset' is even better, so you might as well watch
them both.