Thursday, 13 March 2014

9 years later

Before Sunset (2004)

Directed by Richard Linklater this sequel to Before Sunrise (1995) again stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Nine years after the first film our couple are reunited in Paris for an evening.

This is one of those sequels where you really have to have seen the first film to get the most out of it but it does a great job of picking up where the first film left off with some clever ways of dealing with what happened after the first film and in the intervening years. The script has plenty of personality and does a good job of playing with expectations of views of the first film as well as plenty of humour while looking at the idea of idealised unfulfilled love. As with many Linklater films this is another city film and Paris provides an excellent backdrop to two great performances from the cast.


4/5

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