(Talk about “the one who got away“…)
CAST: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
DIRECTOR: Richard Linklater
WARNING: Some SPOILERS and yet another awesome allnighter - straight ahead…
FAVORITE OF: Mine
IN A NUTSHELL: Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy), our two fleeting lovebirds from nine years ago in Vienna in BEFORE SUNRISE, meet again in Paris as 30-year olds - and pick up their passionate gab-a-thon where they left off. They have exactly an hour or so until Jesse has to fly back to the States. Will they determine in time if they are soulmates in that short time - and stay together? Or will Jesse get on that flight and miss out on “the one who got away” yet again? Will Celine let him leave just like that? Or will they finally get their happy ending? And I don’t mean a really awesome massage.
WHY I LOVE IT: Like BEFORE SUNRISE, this film is mature, elegant, and poignant - even more so because our leads look back on the decisions they made when they were young which eventually kept them apart. Hindsight’s always twenty-twenty, as they say, and the seemingly innocuous choices Jesse and Celine made had ripple effects which eventually sent them on different paths in life. Now, they’ve reconnected in Paris - and are given a shot at making things right? But will they? The answer to this question is why I love this film…
