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Before Sunrise
(1995)
Julie Delpe and Ethan Hawke
They are just kids, he American,
she French, who meet on a train in Vienna, and decide to spend the day
and night together. Oh, yeah.
They talk and they talk, getting
to know each other. A romance. Sure, but who of us is so old to be
immune to the appeal of two attractive kids in their early twenties? Not
I. I was young once, too. I remember, I remember . . . .
They part at dawn, after a night
in the park, with a blanket and a bottle of wine. Each has a life to get on with. But they half-heartedly vow
to get back together six months later. They don't. but after ten
years--he a successful novelist, she an environmental worker--she seeks
him out at a Paris book signing, and it starts all over again.
What starts? Ah, that is the
story. But they are so fascinating in their fascination with each other
that the old, withered heart in each of us begins to beat with hope
again.
Okay, so this is a sappy movie
review. But you've just got to see it. Both of them.
Before Sunset
(2004)
Delpre and Hawke as Celine and Jesse, ten years later
She has aged a bit. Haven't we all? But is still
beautiful
He has a wife and a kid now. He loves the kid. The
wife? Well. . . .
He can't stand her. They live on the edge of
dissolution. Celine has had lovers, of course, but nobody she is going
to discuss. Her work interests her mostly.
She takes Jesse home and he gets a taste of French
life in a
crowded urban environment. Not bad for a tardy rendezvous.
Of course the romantic mind wishes them to be
together forever. And there is just a hint of this happening, enough to
make viewers happy. But what we are left with is just a hint.
It is enough, just right.
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