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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, French, Subtitled, Trailers, Interactive
Yesterday strangers, today inseparable soulmates. But separate they must in just a few hours. Jesse and Celine are making every moment count, pouring as much living as they can into the time Before Sunrise.
From Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused) comes another smartly observed tale of young people at a crossroads. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy play twentysomethings who meet on a train in Europe, sense a connection and explore after-hours Vienna together. The people, places and allure of the city become their sudden itineraries. Love is their destination. On the way there's the mutual sharing of hope, jokes, dreams, worry and wonder. It's a day to linger in their memories. And a valentine to young love forever.
Editor's Note
When a young American (Ethan Hawke) traveling through Europe by train meets a beautiful French student (Julie Delpy), he convinces her to spend the day with him in Vienna so the two can get to know each other better. They spend their day exploring the city and before they know it, they find themselves falling in love. Richard Linklater's romantic daydream is a warm and witty comedy that uses the beautiful streets of Vienna as a perfect backdrop for the characters' youthful, budding romance.
Plot Summary
Director Richard Linklater continues his streak of films that take place over the course of one day (after SLACKER and DAZED AND CONFUSED) with this romantic tale of two twenty-somethings who meet each other on a train headed to Vienna. Jesse (Ethan Hawke) is a self-involved American with a Eurorail pass, and Celine (Julie Delpy) is a beautiful French student who is headed back to Paris. After spending time getting to know each other in the lounge car, Jesse takes the plunge and asks Celine to spend the day with him in Vienna, since his plane doesn't leave for the States until the next morning. She consents, and the couple spends the next 24 hours walking the gorgeous streets of Vienna, becoming even closer as they share stories from their pasts and hopes for their futures. Linklater and Kim Krizan's script unfolds at a leisurely pace, giving the characters' bond time to develop more deeply and much more genuinely than in other films of this genre. By the time their rendezvous has ended, their realization--that this wasn't simply a one-night fling--triggers them into making a bold declaration. Hawke and Delpy's attractive presences combine with a lush background to produce a romance that is genuine and lasting.
| Features | Widescreen Presentation | | Full Screen Presentation | | Theatrical Trailer | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Access |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Castle Rock HM Video |
| Release Date: 12/12/2006 |
| Running Time: 101 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1995 | | Catalog ID: 2531 | | UPC: 00053939253122 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...Finally, a date movie that gets it right....A sharp, sexy, funny romance with a radical core of intelligence that catches the fever and fleetingness of love..." 02/23/1995 p.79-80USA Today
"...Touchingly tender..." 01/27/1995 p.4D Entertainment Weekly
"...[Linklater] is working without a net here....[BEFORE SUNRISE] render[s] visible the magical air pocket of intimacy..." -- Rating: A- 01/27/1995 pp.30-1 Variety
"...A lovely, rather risky concept....Delpy's Celine is a beautiful creation..." 01/23/1995 New York Times
"...An intoxicatingly romantic idea....BEFORE SUNRISE taps into something universal..." 01/27/1995 p.C8 Sight and Sound
"...Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy both respond to the looseness of Linklater's approach with their most engaging performances to date..." 04/01/1995 p.39 Los Angeles Times
"...[Linklater] captures the thrill of chance encounters....A romantic comedy about the erotic appeal of nationality..." 01/27/1995 p.F6 Chicago Sun-Times
"...[The film is] about two nice kids, literate, sensitive, tentative, intoxicated by the fact that their lives stretch out before them, filled with mystery and hope, and maybe love....It is an ideal film for teenagers..." 01/27/1995 p.31 |
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Cinematography |  5 | | Plot | 5 | | Acting |  4.5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 5 |
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5 of 5 Realistic, Funny, and Intelligent Movie Tuesday, June 04, 2002
Ronny from Bronx, New York
This is one ranks high up there as one of the great intellectually provocative movies that I've seen ( Usual Suspects, etc..). The characters are really engrossing, it's hard not to get attached to them by the time the film ends. I think it'd be a great movie to watch with your special other. Was this review helpful?  
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5 of 5 Intelligent, dialog driven romance Friday, February 18, 2000
Don Crossland from Phoenix, Arizona
Great movie! No skin. No action. Just an intelligent, dialog driven romance set in Vienna. Two people, played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delphy, meet on a train while traveling through Europe. Ethan is catching a plane back to the US the next morning but do Was this review helpful?
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