As good as the first one. The dialogues, the characters, the view, everithing is just like it, but just as good. Richard Linklater showed tha he can not only direct, but also create well crafted and smart scripts. One thing that i really find amusing is that he allowed the actors to collaborate in the script, creating more real characters. Nice movie, smart, sharp and also heart warming.
Other than Ethan Hawke aging poorly, this film was just as whimsical as the first one. I know that "whimsical" is a strange word to describe a movie grounded in such reality, but the connecting of hearts, the collision of destinies, and the "magic" that they speak about in this movie makes up enough whimsy to fly me to neverland.
some may think that this movie is boring 'coz this just walked&talked but this movie really good actually(.. well at least for me), they reminisce about their past. the whatifs and whys. i cant explain it so you just have to see it for yourself + the setting is in Paris, France.. hope that helps^-^
This is a fantastic film. It joins the handful of movies where I think I liked the sequel even more than the original, although I havn't seen 'Before Sunrise' as yet. Where Sunrise captured the immediacy and urgency of perfect youthful love, Sunset reflects beautifully on the aftermath of that perfection. I remember a line that says "nothing that is complete breathes", and I think that is what you will see in this film. A perfect connection with another human is a blessing and a curse; having experienced perfection a part of us stops breathing, unable or unwilling to mar the perfection of that memory.
The dialogue is amazing, the acting is spot-on; this is a great film. In some ways it felt more like reading a great novel than watching a movie, in that I really felt like I knew the characters and was sad the movie had to end. Kind of like saying goodbye to an old friend. If, on the other hand, you like good dialogue, well formed characters, and aren't quite jaded enough to have given up completely on the idea of true love, don't miss this film.
Tops Before Sunrise, Before Sunset is shot at some stunning locales, the dialogues are pretty incredible and only enhance the mesmerizing feel of this truly wonderful film.
Ya no son los mismos jóvenes desde su encuentro en un ferrocarril con dirección a Viena. Los nueve años que han pasado desde entonces se ven reflejados en sus rostros. La experiencia y seguridad es notoria en sus gestos, sus miradas, sus sonrisas. El segundo encuentro de Céline (Julie Delphy) y Jesse (Ethan Hawke) será ahora en otra ciudad europea, París, luego de que en Before Sunrise (1995), primera película que los dio a conocer, prometieran volver a verse dentro de 6 meses en Viena.
Dicha cita nunca tuvo lugar, como confiesan en la secuela, Before Sunset (2004), dirigida también por el texano Richard Linklater. Quizás dicha confesión no sea del todo cierta. En Waking Life (2001), filme experimental del mismo Linklater, donde convirtió a sus actores en personajes animados con la técnica rotoscópica, vimos en un pequeño fragmento a Céline y Jesse inmersos en una de sus largas conversaciones sobre el amor y las relaciones, con una ventana abierta en la que apenas y podía verse la ciudad que tienen de fondo.
Las conversaciones nos mantienen enganchados, escena tras escena (en la calle, sentados en un café, paseando por un parque, recorriendo el río Sena en barco, etc.), mientras el suspenso va creciendo, a pesar del ritmo tranquilo que predomina en todo el filme. ¿Tomará Jesse su avión? ¿Volverán a dejar de verse por un tiempo? ¿Será la última vez que se separan?. Más en http://pantallanueve.blogspot.com
Wonderfully good and entertaining. The words are exactly right for every scenes. It is riveting to find out what the ending was and I guessed and I really hope so that they ended up with each other. Two different lives after nine years past should try their luck for their future. It wrecked me to think that they would never be together after sunset. But then so relieved with the ending when Jesse told Celine that he knows that he will gonna miss that plane. I love the chemistry between Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. They are great and even made better along with the story.
"Before Sunset", the long-delayed sequel to "Before Sunrise", is a "talkie" that's not at all boring -- that is if you are the kind who likes "quiet", intellectual types of movies. The story is told in real-time as the whole length of the film is spent on the two lead (and only "real") characters' (Jesse, again played by Ethan Hawke, and Celine, reprised by Julie Delpy) "half-expected" meeting again after they went separate ways nine years ago in an open-ended manner. Because they lost contact with one another after they both reneged on a pact they made while in Vienna to meet up in Paris after six months, they try to catch up with what has happened with each other throughout those years after "non-accidentally bumping into each other" in, of all places, Paris, too. As they speak to each other at the coffee shop and onto the long and winding walk they took afterwards, sexual tension builds up as the romance that had been stymied and rendered dormant during the time of their separation reawakens. Despite its having one continuous, flowing scene (yes, the film does not have any breaks) the film does not drag and drone on. Its storyline is simple and intimate. It engrosses the viewer as Jessie and Celine exchange candid and honest professions, confessions and tales with each other while injecting witty and sarcastic remarks from time to time. Their "chat" (which go on throughout and practically make up the whole movie), although just like any normal conversation, is not "blah" but is an amusing and interesting tete-a-tete between two people who, despite having merely had a short acquaintance nine years ago, exhibit a closeness and familiarity with each other. They have what you may call a connection, or, perhaps, "synchronicity" that somewhat elicits envy. Listening to their personal talk makes the viewer feel like he is evesdropping on a couple who are flirting (that is exactly what they are doing too) with the danger of rekindling their abbreviated potential love affair and resuming what presumably should have taken place nine years ago amid their "unideal" present situations (he's already married and has a kid). "Before Sunset" is a beautiful movie in the sense that watching it is like reading a book that has a serene and 'exertion-less' quality. The viewer can just lay back and not worry about getting any anxiety during the film as the only reaction that he would be provoked to (incredulity, maybe) is at the end of the story. While watching the movie I (as I often would do) also imagined how they went about shooting the film. The screenplay, I realized, was a considerable feat as the camera trained on the two actors as they left the coffee shop, to the ups and downs and turns they took on the street and on the ferryboat on the way to Celine's place, all the while continuously conversing. The film's choreography -- the timing of each event therein -- was done impressively that you just have to take your hat off to the director, Richard Linklater. He is truly a great megman and screenwriter as he proves in this work of his. His talent reflects in his ability to project raw and genuine scenes that he educes from his actors and his obvious acute skill in cameraplay. Hawke and Delpy, like they were in 'Before Sunrise', were just as phenomenal in their roles. (They, coincidentally, also co-wrote the script with Linklater.) "Before Sunset" is a perfect couch movie if you have a DVD player at home -- and maybe someone you like a lot at your side. Popcorn is optional.
A limited budget accompanied by unlimited beauty.So simple...so perfect!The fact is that i had never considered myself true romantic,till i watched these two movies!
Much stronger than Sunrise. The ambiguity of their relationship is heightened (wonderful last scene), both actors have more chances to shine, we are allowed to laugh at Hawke's half-formed poetic and philosophical musings in the opening bookstore scene (it seemed in Sunrise we were being asked to take them seriously, which was difficult for me): all around a very enjoyable movie. In fact I wonder whether it would be even more enjoyable had there not been a Sunrise, had all of their backstory been left to our imagination...
Una gran secuela de una de las películas más románticas que haya visto. Con un Jesse y una Celine muy reales, más maduros y reflexivos y con una química envidiable.
Not nearly as good as the first movie. Even if I was extremely interested in seeing what happens to the "happy couple" it took way to long to find out the ending.
Movie about real people, a romance, a reflection on life and an artistic statement. Great sequal of Before Sunrise, we can feel the sadness and the need to be with one another in order to be "complete" is so strong. They have dreams and songs about each other, but they lied to cover the truth.
Nine years after we were totally surprised by little Linklater's romantic masterpiece Before Sunrise (1995), he comes back with a way too short but way too great sequel, with the same faithful style he has towards his incredibly natural, human and adequate scripts and top-notch direction. Another little masterful gem that is worth checking out if you saw and loved the prequel. Surpasses the original by a little bit... a love tale to remember...
To enjoy the movie you should for a while suspend your sense of reality to dream about magic of the world...anyway they have very impressive heart-breaking conversation...
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