Before Sunset

– Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. Th..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
8.10 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 20 Minutes
Release Year:
2004
Before Sunset (2004)

Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.

Before Sunset (2004) - Trailer

Release Date:

30 Jul 2004

Language:

English, French

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Richard Linklater

Writer:

Richard Linklater (screenplay), Julie Delpy (screenplay), Ethan Hawke (screenplay), Richard Linklater (story), Kim Krizan (story), Richard Linklater (characters), Kim Krizan (characters)

Main Actors:

Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff, Louise Lemoine Torrès

Plot:

Early thirty-something American Jesse Wallace is in a Paris bookstore, the last stop on a tour to promote his best selling book, This Time. Although he is vague to reporters about the source material for the book, it is about his chance encounter nine years earlier on June 15-16, 1994 with a Parisienne named Celine, and the memorable and romantic day and evening they spent together in Vienna. At the end of their encounter at the Vienna train station, which is also how the book ends, they, not providing contact information to the other, vowed to meet each other again in exactly six months at that very spot. As the media scrum at the bookstore nears its conclusion, Jesse spots Celine in the crowd, she who only found out about the book when she earlier saw his photograph promoting this public appearance. Much like their previous encounter, Jesse and Celine, who is now an environmental activist, decide to spend time together until he is supposed to catch his flight back to New York, this time only being about an hour. Beyond the issue of the six month meeting, what has happened in their lives in the intervening nine years, and their current lives, they once again talk about their philosophies of life and love, this time with the knowledge of their day together and how it shaped what has happened to them.

Awards:

Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 30 nominations.

Gross profit:

$5,600,000

Production:

Warner Independent Pictures

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
8.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
Metacritic:
90%