Rating: R
Movie Release Date: January 27, 1995
DVD Release Date: November 30, 1999
Plot 411: Two strangers meet on a train, get off in Vienna and spend the night walking and talking together.
Review: God, this is one of the most romantic movies in the world to me and has, with its companion Before Sunset, jumped onto my favorite movie list. Jessie (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) meet on a train in Europe. He's going to Vienna to catch a flight home to America. She's on her way home to Paris. On an impulse, he convinces her to get off the train and spend the night walking around Vienna with him. They have this one unforgettable night together that changes their lives. The movie is seriously heavy on the dialogue, but that's what is so wonderful about it. It's about two people connecting as they discuss love, life and dreams. It's about how one fateful moment can impact your life forever. It feels like an intellectual romance, because there is so much meaning behind the words they speak to each other. The time Jesse and Celine spend together is almost as if they're living in a dream world. Time is standing still, yet it still ticks closer and closer to the moment when they must part from each other. This is a sweet, heart-wrenching movie that leaves the audience to draw its own conclusions.
Watch It: If you don't put much stock in fate and true love. While this might not change your mind entirely, it might just give you hope.
Skip It: If you still hope to see complexity in camera techniques and special effects. All of that "wow" factor is in the dialogue. Some of it also just naturally exudes from the landscape of the city.
Movie Release Date: January 27, 1995
DVD Release Date: November 30, 1999
Plot 411: Two strangers meet on a train, get off in Vienna and spend the night walking and talking together.
Review: God, this is one of the most romantic movies in the world to me and has, with its companion Before Sunset, jumped onto my favorite movie list. Jessie (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) meet on a train in Europe. He's going to Vienna to catch a flight home to America. She's on her way home to Paris. On an impulse, he convinces her to get off the train and spend the night walking around Vienna with him. They have this one unforgettable night together that changes their lives. The movie is seriously heavy on the dialogue, but that's what is so wonderful about it. It's about two people connecting as they discuss love, life and dreams. It's about how one fateful moment can impact your life forever. It feels like an intellectual romance, because there is so much meaning behind the words they speak to each other. The time Jesse and Celine spend together is almost as if they're living in a dream world. Time is standing still, yet it still ticks closer and closer to the moment when they must part from each other. This is a sweet, heart-wrenching movie that leaves the audience to draw its own conclusions.
Watch It: If you don't put much stock in fate and true love. While this might not change your mind entirely, it might just give you hope.
Skip It: If you still hope to see complexity in camera techniques and special effects. All of that "wow" factor is in the dialogue. Some of it also just naturally exudes from the landscape of the city.
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