There are films with a capacity that feels transformative. As you come back to them, you notice that they are talking to you in a different waygetting excited in corners you least expected. They are still perfect as the first day, but now they are perfect in a different way in the same way that you evolve to be a different person.
It certainly happens with movies like before sunseta practically immediate masterpiece that time only returns rounder and essential. And with only an hour and a half of footage. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy return in this new chapter of Richard Linklater's exciting love saga.
Nine years have passed since a chance train trip brought Jesse and Celine together by chance. The mutual attraction they felt only lasted a few hours because they were both embarking on different paths, but at their farewell they promised to meet again a few months later. The date never took place and now, a long time later, both They meet again in Paris.
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His life has changed. Jesse is a writer, married and lives in New York; Celine lives in Paris with her boyfriend and takes her activism as an environmentalist very seriously. However, there is something that still endures, the deep connection that unites them and that they felt long ago. Their conversations on the Parisian streets will resume something that was interrupted almost a decade ago.
After having done the also essential Before dawnLinklater met with the actors to consider the possibility of making a larger and more ambitious sequel, taking place in several locations. But the lack of financing brought them back to the most basic essencesetting the action in a single place and in an even tighter period of time than the first film.
'Before sunset': conversations and changes
The different creative talks and meetings between the director and actors turned into a joint writing of a script that perfectly takes up one of the most exciting romantic stories that ended with a beautiful enigma. Resolving it might have broken the magic, but seeing these characters exchange conversations and reflecting on how their lives change and don't change is extraordinary.
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And with the passage of time, as one sees one's impressions and vital relationships evolve, one notices more how this intermediate film speaks to one more directly. Something that also enhances its continuation, before nightfallconsolidating one of the best trilogies of all time.
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