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Before Sunrise
(1995)
5.13
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Plot/Story

2.00

Characters

4.00

Acting

8.00

Cinematography

8.00

Production Design

8.00

Sound

7.00

Execution

3.00

Emotional Impact

1.00

Overview: A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.

Director: Richard Linklater

Release Date: 1995-01-27

Genres: Drama Romance


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Before Sunrise is a hundred minutes of a man and a woman talking to each other. There is really no other plot; they just walk around Vienna together and chat. The acting is fine and there is some cool cinematography sometimes, but the rest is a bore. I can't even get into their relationship, because it does not feel like a conversation; it feels like two people alternating giving monologues. Ethan Hawke will say some philosophical bullshit or a boring story from his life and then Julie Delpy responds with her own speech about philosophy or her childhood. They have okay chemistry, but nothing else feels real. I was begging for something to happen or for them to broach something interesting or substantial, but they never do. I don't even get a real sense of their relationship developing, as topics aren't consistently digging deeper and neither character is really likable or relatable. There were a handful of times that they talked about something that caught my attention, but then Hawke will quickly offer a story about being 12 and they lose me again. I've not seen the other two Before films, so I can only view this as an individual experience and my experience had me skipping back thirty minutes because I fell asleep. It's not a RomCom and it's not a drama; it's like two high school seniors playing grown up giving monologues.

By : Greg Mueller | Date : 3 years ago




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