Before Sunrise (1995)
★ — Before Sunrise (1995)
Richard Linklater made Before Sunrise on a modest $2.5 million budget for Castle Rock Entertainment, shooting on location across Vienna in 1994. It was his third feature, following the micro-budget Slacker (1991) and the more widely seen Dazed and Confused (1993), and it established the loose, conversation-driven style that would define much of his career. The script, co-written with Kim Krizan, drew partly from a real encounter Linklater had with a woman he met while travelling. Ethan Hawke was already known from Dead Poets Society and Reality Bites, while Julie Delpy had appeared in Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours trilogy. The film arrived during the mid-1990s American indie wave, and would eventually spawn two sequels, Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013), both reuniting the same cast and collaborators.
A-Z World Movie Tour Austria This film... is number 130 of all time on letterboxd. I'm sorry but how the hell is this ranked so highly? This movie is just 100 minutes of pretentious, nonsensical, boring conversations between two cringe inducing people. Everything they bump into is, for them, this astounding, beautiful and deeply meaningful experience. In actual fact it's an older woman belly dancing, or a poetry writing bum. Ethan Hawke is literally just entirely unlikeable in this. This is actively a bad movie. I watched a made for TV movie called Love in Aruba which is better than this. That tells you all you need to know.
Rating: ★ | Year: 1995 | Watched: 2025-05-26
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