Don't miss it and allow yourself to be a version of Jesse or Celine for 90plus minutes My best friend had his student apartment in Spittelberg - in Viennas 7th district - in 1993, when he called me once, and told me, that they are shooting a film right in front of his door. We both couldn't care less. About a year later we went to the movies on a Wednesday, where surprise sneak previews were screened, not knowing what to expect of this particular movie night.
The screening was Before sunrise. I movie that I loved right away and that still captivates me, every couple of years I see it.
It's simple, it's full of cliches (I've never seen a palm reader nor a street poet in Vienna ever!), it's some random talks between 2 young adults who want to impress their counterparts with their (pseudo)intellectuality, and still it portrays life the way it often is. We all had those evenings and nights, were we felt super clever, were we fell for someone or just for the thought of it. And that's what Before Sunrise is. It's tale about us. It's a blueprint of 20somethings in the 90s. It's about falling in love or truely believing it's love. It's about the morning after, were the night before becomes a faded memory.
Richard Linklater, the fantastic Ethan Hawke and July Delpy made it possible to create a movie, that mirrors our lifes, that allows us to see us through someone elses eyes. Films rarely do that and that's what makes Before sunrise a little treasure of filmmaking. Ethan Hawke once said in an interview about his movie "First Reformed" that a good movie starts after you have watched it (or something like that...). That's true with Before sunrise, because when the end credits have rolled, it makes you feel something. Almost 30 years ago it was the pain of lost love and the sadness of a great night passed for me. And it still does after watching it at the age of 50.
Thanks for the movie and their great sequels.
Btw, my friends entrance door was in the small alley, were Jesse and Celine sat down on some pallets, if anyone wonders.