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Before Sunrise is one of my favourite films. I've written about it here.
To sum up Before Sunrise in a sentence, you could perhaps call it a light, delicious bonbon of romantic chemistry and youthful philosophy. The story starts when on a train to Vienna, a young American traveling through Europe, and a beautiful French girl get talking, and unexpectedly they seem to have an unknown connection. He persuades her to come off the train with him in Vienna for his last 14 hours on the continent.
To put it bluntly, nothing really happens in the film at all. But that’s the beauty of it. Consisting little more than a long stroll and stimulating, intelligent, flirtatious and frank conversations, the film is unbelievably simple. Yet it is unbelievably absorbing. It is not your everyday romance film. There’s something about it that you can’t quite place, something of pure brilliance.
As the two walk around the beautiful city, the energy between them grows more exhilarating and yet more nakedly honest. But they have made a romanticized promise never to meet again and just remember the night as a lovely singularity.
Seemingly improvised and entirely natural but still structured and splendidly directed, Before Sunrise is the kind of film that leaves you feeling warm and hopeful in a way that makes you want to take on the world.
Watch the trailer here.
To sum up Before Sunrise in a sentence, you could perhaps call it a light, delicious bonbon of romantic chemistry and youthful philosophy. The story starts when on a train to Vienna, a young American traveling through Europe, and a beautiful French girl get talking, and unexpectedly they seem to have an unknown connection. He persuades her to come off the train with him in Vienna for his last 14 hours on the continent.
To put it bluntly, nothing really happens in the film at all. But that’s the beauty of it. Consisting little more than a long stroll and stimulating, intelligent, flirtatious and frank conversations, the film is unbelievably simple. Yet it is unbelievably absorbing. It is not your everyday romance film. There’s something about it that you can’t quite place, something of pure brilliance.
As the two walk around the beautiful city, the energy between them grows more exhilarating and yet more nakedly honest. But they have made a romanticized promise never to meet again and just remember the night as a lovely singularity.
Seemingly improvised and entirely natural but still structured and splendidly directed, Before Sunrise is the kind of film that leaves you feeling warm and hopeful in a way that makes you want to take on the world.
Watch the trailer here.
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