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Summary: My favorite film
Review: This film is, along with Dennis Hoppers' "The Hot Spot", one of the most underrated films I can think of. A delight from start to finish, it's just the sort of "slice-of-life" romance which doesn't need a plot because you just slot it into your own experiences and it becomes personal. Oh to meet someone with whom one can carry on such stimuating, intellectual, romantic conversation. If you have any passion in your soul at all this film will feed it. Would make a great play (was it?). By the way, good to see a review which is the exception that proves the rule. BUY THIS FILM !
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Summary: Strangers On A Train
Review: A totally believable, charmmer of a film that thrives on its great performes and unabtrusive directing. Its unforunate that this film didn't have the commercial sucess it deserved, but undoubtedly it find a place in film history as one of the most truthfull and heart-felt movies of this decade.
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Summary: cotton candy
Review: Unfortunately I'm not so readily disposed to fall into a passive torpor while watching the gorgeous julie delpy that the plot ceases to be of any importance. The dialogue may be slightly above average for the typical american film, but attempts at intellectualism and romance seem to come from the mind of a naive young adolescent. The reason this film upsets me so is because it contains two excellent actors who could have achieved something brilliant if there was more substance to the story line. A brief consultation with Kundera would have been enough.
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Summary: A finely-crafted delight
Review: I'm pleased to see so many other people are wild about this movie, because it is certainly a wonderful film. It perfectly and honestly captures the sort of moment life offers on rare, intoxicating occasions. So many others have offered insightful commentary I feel the need to agree and leave it at that.
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Summary: gentle romance
Review: Typical Linklater movie -- which is very high praise in my book. Minimalist boy/girl "long first date" movie. Lots of dialogue, a little bit of kissing, and no violence or intrigue or even any plot. Very good performances, attractive stars (Julie Delpy is beautiful, in fact), and great scenery. If you are a romantic, you'll love it, otherwise, don't bother. By the way, it's absurd that this movie is rated anything above PG-13, since it's very sweet and nobody even gets mad in it.
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Summary: SIMPLY ONE OF THE GREATEST MOVIES EVER MADE, SERIOUSLY!
Review: Richard Linklater won a richly deserved Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival for this beautiful film.It may take ten, twenty or thirty years, but eventually, this movie will be recognized as one of the greatest movies ever made for it's sheer, simplistic, wonderful examination of real life!
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Summary: very attractive, emotional, sensitive
Review: I watched the later half of this film on TNT and was instantly attracted as soon as I switched to the channel. Both actor/actress played really well especially Delpy - personally I think she is very attractive, sensational although not the most beautiful. I am going to rush for this movie for my video achive. Hollywood produces few films more romantic and (less sexually explicit) than this one.
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Summary: An exercise in emotional tangibles.
Review: Never before have I been witness to a film that captures the essence of emotional tangibles and intangibles with the clarity and subtlety of Mr. Linklater's opus. A truly magnificent farago of philosophy, romance, rapier wit (esp from Ethan Hawke),pregnant silences, and congealing eye-contact, this film has conceived the very purity of love from its myriad definitions and blended the upture into a bittersweet tale of two individuals who want to do more with their limited resources than is possible, rendering the setting even-more ethereal. The stolen stares that the two permit each other in the listening booth in the music shop,and the pseudo-telephonic dialogue that they indulge in at the coffee shop is in stark reality of the harshness of the eventual result-the separation. Julie Delpy truly captures the essence of love as it should be and not how it might be for the unappreciative generation that heralds the new millenium. Before Sunrise is another analogy for "carpaydeum".
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Summary: LINKLATER'S MASTERPIECE!!!
Review: Richard Linklater is a brilliant writer and director. A Jack Kerouac for this generation. And "Before Sunrise" is Linklater's masterpeice. No other film better captures that spontaneity of being young, philisophic and in love. The viewer feels as if the movie is about their own lives. This may be the only picture that actually captures what it's like to be in love. The acting is beyond compare. Ethan Hawke proves that he is an excellent actor and Julie Delpy is absolutely incredible, giving what could possibly be called her best performance ever. And that shot of the two of them standing side by side in the record booth is one of the greatest shots in cinema history!
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Summary: Achingly beautiful...
Review: I, like others who have posted reviews, am moved and aching once finished watching Before Sunrise. I have seen it about half a dozen times by now, and I never fail to be touched by it. Each time I long for them to meet again, long for there to be hope for them. I long to *be* them, to *know* them. I can see from the characters how it feels to be in such bliss and yet have to acknowledge that because of this bliss, there must be tremendous pain to suffer, and to throw yourself into those feelings anyway. There must be hope for those who take such risks and fall so bravely; this film gives me a feeling that there are still beautiful and powerful moments to come in my life. Beautiful photography, beautifully written story. It's painful and yet special to know there's no sequel. It's an amazing gift in its uniqueness and its perfect little package.
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