Before Sunset (2004)

• Year: 2004
• Released: 30 Jul 2004
• Country: United States, France
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 9 wins & 32 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381681/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Before_Sunset
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/before-sunset
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, French
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Runtime: 80 min
• Writer: Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
• Director: Richard Linklater
• Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff
• Keywords: paris, france, journalist, author, love of one’s life, two-hander,

	8.1/10
	90/100
	94% – Critics
	92% – Audience

Before Sunset Storyline

Early thirty-something American Jesse Wallace is in a Paris bookstore, the last stop on a tour to promote his best selling book, This Time. Although he is vague to reporters about the source material for the book, it is about his chance encounter nine years earlier on June 15-16, 1994 with a Parisienne named Celine, and the memorable and romantic day and evening they spent together in Vienna. At the end of their encounter at the Vienna train station, which is also how the book ends, they, not providing contact information to the other, vowed to meet each other again in exactly six months at that very spot. As the media scrum at the bookstore nears its conclusion, Jesse spots Celine in the crowd, she who only found out about the book when she earlier saw his photograph promoting this public appearance. Much like their previous encounter, Jesse and Celine, who is now an environmental activist, decide to spend time together until he is supposed to catch his flight back to New York, this time only being about an hour. Beyond the issue of the six month meeting, what has happened in their lives in the intervening nine years, and their current lives, they once again talk about their philosophies of life and love, this time with the knowledge of their day together and how it shaped what has happened to them.

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Before Sunset Movie Reviews

Linklater, Delpy & Hawke make an impossible sequel work (including minor SPOILERS)

“Before Sunrise” was one of the most beautiful independent love stories of the 90’s. Part of its appeal came from the open ending. We didn’t know how the lives of these two young people would continue and what would become of them. The whole movie was like a snapshot that left the rest to our imagination. A sequel to such a story seemed to be unnecessary, but apparently director Richard Linklater himself couldn’t stop thinking about these two intriguing characters and had to envision their lives after this one fateful day in Vienna.

Here it is now, the most unlikely sequel I have ever seen, “Before Sunset” – made not for money but for pure artistic purpose only. Much of the magic of part one could have been destroyed, but somehow Linklater and his two main actors managed to pull it off. “Before Sunset” takes place nine years after Jesse and Celine first met and as soon as the movie starts you feel like you meet old friends you haven’t seen in a long time. You know these people and immediately feel at home with them. I was afraid that “Before Sunset” might give answers to questions that shouldn’t be answered in the first place. If “Before Sunrise” was a dream that two young people had, then this movie could only be the rude awakening, the confrontation with reality. And somehow it is just that. It’s a bit disillusioning to hear that all did not turn out as well as one might have imagined. We learn that Jesse and Celine are not particularly happy in their lives and that they are not really the romantic persons they used to be nine years ago. The soothing thing to see, however, is that they are still here. They both have passed their 30th birthday, they have jobs and their future is more or less decided, but they’re still longing for passion in their lives and as soon as they meet each other, it’s there again. They might have given up a lot of their dreams and beliefs but one thing remains true: their feelings for each other. While they’re talking it’s like they turn back time and become the young, hopeful people they once were again. I’m getting a bit carried away, but that’s the beauty of these two movies, “Sunrise” and “Sunset”. The story sucks you in and you’re not able to stop thinking about it for a long while.

Another thing “Before Sunset” did, it made me reflect on my own life. How have I changed in the past nine years? What has become of my dreams? Obviously, I have gotten more cynical, because at times I was irritated by Celine’s talk about environmental problems and her emotional outbursts. It took me way longer than last time to “bond” with her character this time around.

Anyway, the performances by Hawke and Delpy are wonderful once again. Their acting is as natural as can be, and thinking of Hawke’s recent divorce in real life you wonder how much of his character in the movie is based on his own personal experiences.

Unfortunately, the movie is over way too soon. After about an hour you have already arrived at the final scene – a scene that is just amazing. It makes you hope that somehow everything will work out for Jesse and Celine and that maybe they will stay together this time. As part one, “Before Sunset” doesn’t have a definite ending, though.

It’s sure nice to see that apparently Linklater cares about Jesse and Celine as much as I do and made such a good sequel. He could probably even make a third part. “Before Sunset” has convinced me that it could work.

sweet return

It’s 9 years after the events of ‘Before Sunrise’. American Jesse Wallace (Ethan Hawke) is in Paris on a book tour after writing about that night with Céline (Julie Delpy) in Vienna. He’s coy to the reporters about that night. Céline shows up and they restart the conversation while he waits for his flight later that night. She reveals that she didn’t make their planned meeting due to her grandmother’s funeral. He reveals that he did return for the meeting. He’s married with a son. She has a photojournalist boyfriend who is away. The conversation fluctuates between breezy and deeper material until personal truths start to be spilled.

Richard Linklater has hit on something compelling by returning to the same characters years later. It’s casual and improvisational-like. Hawke and Delpy still have the same chemistry but more adult. It’s deeper. There is an addition to the material by being a sequel. It’s more than repetition. It’s a sweet return of old friends.

Delightful Sequel of One of the Most Beautiful Romances I Have Ever Seen

In Paris, the American writer Jesse Howard (Ethan Hawk) is in the end of an European tour, promoting his novel about the one night stand he had with a young French woman nine years ago. In the end of the debates in a bookstore, he finds Celine (Julie Delpy) in the audience, who works in an environmental organization, and they leave the place to drink coffee and talk to each other before Jesse goes to the airport. Along the moments together, they realize that they are still in love for each other.

“Before Sunset” is a delightful sequel of “Before Sunrise”, which is in my opinion one of the most beautiful romances I have ever seen. The screenplay was written by Ethan Hawk, Julie Delpy and Richard Linklater and it is fantastic, with wonderful dialogs. It is also amazing the natural performances of Ethan Hawk and Julie Delpy, who intensively live the characters of Jesse and Celine. It is impossible not liking this movie! The simple song sang by Julie Delpy is a great complement to this lovely fairy tale. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): “Antes do Pôr-do-Sol” (“Before Sunset”)