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Summary: DVD? Really!? Wow, people must love this unheard of movie.
Review: So I was reading through the reviews and noticed that almost everyone has stumbled onto this movie by accident. Lol. I remember I saw this on The Movie Channel- I think, on June 16th. The only reason why I remember that date was because that's when Jesse and Celine were suppose to meet in six months...or it was the date they met....whatever the case is, I remember the date because of the friggin movie and this movie is really really good for a romantic comedy. It was well written! This is one of my favorite movies along with Shawshank Redemption, Seven Samurai, and Chasing Amy. It's a shame that this movie never made it big and still remains a sleeper hit. Since I'm suppose to tell how great or sucky this movie is, I'd like to say that you should buy it. I'm waiting for November 6th so I can buy the DVD. If you haven't seen this movie, you must. This is the first Five I've given out of 5 reviews, so I hope that helps someone. If not then.....GO GET THIS MOVIE STILL.
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Summary: Whoa
Review: Wow. I just finished watching this movie a few minutes ago. I then read some reviews. Most of the reviews said it was sweet but too talky and unambitious. What! Perhaps there's some truth to the talkiness complaint but the ambition is clear and full-plated: show the rapture, disappointment, and motivations of relationships through the microcosm of a 24 hour encounter between two people. I really can't believe what a GREAT movie Before Sunrise is. I am completely moved and touched and astonished by the sheer power of this film. I watched most of this movie with a big grin on my face- a grin of happiness. This film made me truly joyous. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy had such a beautiful romance together. No matter what your sexuality, you'll think they're BOTH hot by the end of this movie. They had little quirks to their personalities that made them seem human and the camera makes them attractive. I love this movie and I can't wait to see it again if not just to hear the brilliant conversations that perfectly assess life AS IT IS. Do they ever meet again on the train in six months? Someone please write a sequel!
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Summary: 22 Again
Review: "Before Sunrise" is a realistic dialogue of two college aged young adults that meet by "chance" on a train in Austria/Germany/Hungary. Ms. Delpy is the one of the romantic leads, paired with American actor Ethan Hawke. Her role as the emotionally mature and aware young woman on holiday, finishing a visit with her grandmother, is not only refreshing, but should send EVERY young man's heart aflutter. Ethan Hawke is the young man, that has just finished a disasterous meeting and break-up with his American girlfriend in Europe, and aimlessly "bumps" into Ms. Delpy's character on the train. After an initial meeting, that realisically portrays the most charismatic scences of love at first meeting, the couple spend the next 90 minutes developing not only their characters, but the most sincere
portrayals of feelings ever seen on film. A real sleeper. Though eight years old as a movie, this movie's emotions, intensity, and realism shall never age. Definitely buy or rent this movie. E-mail me and tell me what you think.
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Summary: absolutely great
Review: I first saw it in a hotel back 4-5 years ago (also in my journey), so felt for them. Since then, have been trying track down if its DVD has been out, not till 2002 when I spotted them in Tower. Such a simple plot, but make you heart so tender. Such a disappointment that these two talents haven't been making a lot of movies since. By the way, can anyone tell me what's the song (& who sings it) that they listended in the brooth?
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Summary: Simply charming
Review: I came across this movie accidentally while switching through the channels on my cable service. And I love it!!!This is a charming and romantic movie that surprisingly not many people know about (after asking around). I would love to buy this DVD and now that there's a sequel "Before Sunset" coming out soon, how could I miss that! Watch it and you could imagine yourself in the movie and pay attention during your next trip.
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Summary: Terrific movie - and not a "chick movie"!!!!!!
Review: I remember when this movie came out a few years ago that I thought the concept of the movie - two strangers meet on a train, and get to know each other -- but both must leave never to see each other again -- sounded intriguing. I was right.
I rented this movie and thought the movie was charming, funny, poigniant, and very realistic. Ethan Hawke ( a very underrated actor - please make more movies!!!) and Julie Delpy (where has she gone?) meet on a train going to Vienna. On a whim, both decide to spend the day and night together. This is not an action movie! There is dialogue - people talk and you get to know them as they get to know each other. Both actors do an excellent job of acting. The nervousness, the anticipation - it is all there. The audience ( and the charecters) know what is going to happen - but the fun is the conversations these people have in getting there. Meaningless, stupid, funny, interesting; the converstations are interesting because both people know they likely won't see each other again - so they can confide in each other. The scenery is great. Having been to Vienna, the sights are wonderful. I even went to many of the same places as the charecters. The fountain they sit at is above the Vienna State Opera House. At the end of the movie, you will see a line of people - those people are waiting for standing-room only tickets for the opera!! It made me remember my time in Vienna. I waited in that line to see the opera. I must confess I met a girl on a train as well in Europe - and this movie brought the same memories of that time. The movie is romantic, and cool because the guy lives out a fantasy thing for traveling in Europe. Oo la lah. (I didn't get so lucky! : () This is a charming movie, and well worth seeing. It is so sad at the end ( I won't ruin the resolution), but the writer/director R. Linklater handles the ending with such beauty and subtle touch that it makes the movie even more 'true.' This is truly bravura filmmaking. No, it isn't "Lawrence of Arabia," but in my opinion, it is similarly quality filmmaking. This movie is like "My Dinner with Andre." There is simply something about it that makes your heart sing. Yeah, just from two people being together. No sex, no drugs, no rock and roll, just simply human communication. Simply exquisite. See it. (And it isnt a chick movie!!) UPDATE FOR ALL YOU "BEFORE SUNRISE" FANS - THERE IS A SEQUEL COMING - EXPECTED IN 2004!!!!
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Summary: a true love story
Review: I sincerely believe that this is the most intelligent love story I have ever seen, and the most honest. Never before I see man and woman express their love in such an honest, natural, and intelligent way. A young american named Jesse (Ethan Hawke) meet a young frenchwoman named Celine (Julie Delpy) in a Eurotrain. Celine had just visiting her grandmother in Budapest and are going home to Paris, while Jesse is going to Vienna to catch a plane back to the U.S. They talk at the train lounge, share some thought and are somehow intrigued and attracted to each other. When the train stops at Vienna, Jesse has this idea: His plane will take off tomorrow morning, he can't afford a hotel and he ask Celine to accompany him spend the night at Vienna, walking around all night. She agrees. And what a stroll it was! While enjoying Vienna's citiscape, they keep sharing their thought and their philosophy. She's worried that Women's Lib are made by men so that they can have more sex with women, while he thought that eternal soul and reincarnation is an impossibility since human population keeps growing (whose soul it is that are reincarnating, then?). They can't all agree on each other's opinions, but they respect each other. They openly admit that they're attracted to each other, and slowly realized that they're in love. There's this very powerful scene where she pretend to call her friend by phone and he's acting as her friend and she tell "her friend" her feeling, why she takes off the train with him and why she loves him, then they switch the role and he did the same. This is the most powerful scene of expressing love to each other that I've ever seen, comparable to the final scene of "Wings of Desire", where Marion express her love poetically to Damiel. Watch it! It's the best love story ever!
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Summary: Coz everything is so finite... let's just make tonight great
Review: After watching this movie I felt a little hole in my heart... maybe it opened my memory to all those moments in my life as short or shorter than Jesse and Celine's 18 hour encounter that had the same deep impact in my life than their night together in Viena had on theirs. Some nostalgia and sadness but also great joy is what it generated on me.
This is a story about assimilating that life can only be lived once (it's no old lady memories, there are no dress rehearsals) and therefore open our arms to the unexpected, to those moments where we may truly connect with other beings and be able to share intimate thoughts making us feel completed, plenty, not only a scattered fraction of a soul. It seems difficult but sometimes we just have to slow the pace to see those opportunities and don't fail to embrace them... to be able afterwards to let them go without regretting anything.
The director is very clever leaving the end of the movie open to our thoughts and I will always be grateful to him for having let this two unforgettable characters (great performances) meet, be touched by one another and in so many ways recovered their faith in the existence of treasure moments in life even if they are sporadic; those moments that make everything else worth it... moments as magical and cruel as real life itself.
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Summary: Chance Meeting in Europe; has depth, humor, and romance
Review: Before Sunrise is a successful film by Richard Linklater (Slacker) starring Ethan Hawke (Dead Poet's Society) and the gorgeous Julie Delpy. The two meet on a train from Budapest to Vienna and decide to spend the day in Vienna. Their conversation is always interesting and philosophical, and the incidental characters they meet add humor and European atmosphere. The main feeling it gives you is the feeling of freedom, traveling in Europe carefree. I've traveled myself in Europe like this, though the fantasy of having a "10" fall in love with me on a train never came true. As for the conversation, one example is when Hawke talks about reincarnation: "If we're reincarnated we are only 1/1000th of a soul, considering there were only a million people on Earth 1000 years ago". An interesting, but half-baked idea.
I would've responded, "We are all part of universal consciousness, we aren't separate entities, that's an illusion."
When Delpy says how her shrink thought she was a homicidal killer because of her fictional writing, it really drives home how much shrinks project and tend to think the worst in people; i.e. anti-humanists in a profession that should be made up of humanists. The characters they meet like the actor who plays a cow adds some great humor as well as the fortune teller (you're learning..50 shillings please) and the homeless poet: "nice cakes, and milkshakes". They were good vehicles to show Hawke as a symbol of American cynicism and Delpy one of European naive optimism. There is a spontaneous realistic feel to it, the dialogue seems off-the-cuff yet intelligent, and my suspicion is Linklater was using his own semi-autobiographic incident. Another touch of realism in the dialogue is when Delpy talks about the war in Bosnia. I'll take low-budget with good dialogue over high-budget with poor dialogue any day.
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Summary: SEQUEL has been shot.
Review: I'd give it 4.5 stars-- but that's not an option. I think this is a great film. I'm biased because of my many European train trips and because I think French girls are intriguing and I'm still kinda hoping "it" might happen to me. It seems a sequel could only ruin the beauty of the first film's indefinite ending-- but I definitely want to check it out.
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