Before Sunrise / Sunset / Midnight - written by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan

This post is dedicated to my mother, a big fan of the trilogy of movies I am about to suggest.

Before Sunrise, written by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan, is a 1995 romantic movie featuring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy with an astonishing reception among the audience and critics (currently scoring 100% on Rotten Tomatoes!). It is an all-dialogue film centered around only two characters talking to each other in real time for one hour and 40 minutes -a conversation that you would never forget and would hardly disappoint you. After meeting on a train from Budapest, Jesse, a young American man, asks Celine, a young French woman returning to Paris, to get down with him in Vienna and keep him busy wondering around and talking till sunrise when he must take a flight back to the US. Although he uses a quite elaborate (and naive) excuse to convince her, the chemistry between the characters is stunning from the very beginning, and it is not surprising that she agree willingly. While walking through Vienna, and talking endlessly as if they were old friends, the youngsters fall in love. I realized now that my plot summary is cornier than any of the lines in the film. In fact, the tape is quite mature and intelligent in part because the couple tries their best to fight back clichés and standard dating techniques, just to plummet into one of the most common things for two human beings, love.

The long-desired sequels Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013) are as endearing as the first but logically even more mature. Before Sunset takes place when Jesse and Celine meet again in Paris, nine years after their unique encounter, on the occasion of a book release by Jesse based on his experiences with Celine. Before Midnight -another nine years down the road- shows us a couple with two daughters during holidays in Greece. Both sequels were greatly acclaimed by the public and nominated for best screenplay award by the Academy, but never fashionable enough to actually get it. I particularly recommend the first and the third of the trilogy, in which you may see the change in verbal behavior from youth to well-settled adulthood. Nevertheless, to the purist, I should say that the latter is not only based on dialogues between the two main characters. These are good movies, with capital letters, and you shouldn't miss the opportunity of watching them.

Enjoy the trailer for Before Sunrise below!

I will link to Before Sunset and Before Midnight, as well...

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