#858: LINKLATER, Richard: Before Sunset (2004)

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LINKLATER, Richard (United States)
Before Sunset [2004]
Spine #858
DVD


In the breathtaking follow-up to Before Sunrise, Celine tracks down Jesse, now an author, at the tail end of his book tour in Paris, with only a few hours left before he is to board a flight back home to the States. Meeting almost a decade after their short-lived romance in Vienna, the pair find their chemistry rekindled by increasingly candid exchanges about professional setbacks, marital disappointments, and the compromises of adulthood. Impelled by an urgent sense of the transience of human connection, Before Sunset remains Richard Linklater's most seductive experiment with time's inexorable passage and the way love can seem to stop it in its tracks.

80 minutes
Color
5.1 Surround
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2017
Director/Writers


Based on characters created by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan.
Story by Linklater and Krizan.
Screenplay by Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke.
Linklater was 44 when he directed Before Sunset.

Other Linklater films in the Collection:

#247: Slacker (1991)
#336: Dazed And Confused (1993)
#857: Before Sunrise (1995)
#859: Before Midnight (2013)
#839: Boyhood (2014)

The Film

A

Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

 The Booklet

Thirty-six page booklet featuring an essay on the trilogy by critic Dennis Lim.

Commentary

None.

Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny

A feature-length 2016 documentary about the director by Louis Black and Karen Bernstein.

Linklater // On Cinema & Time

A video essay by filmmaker ::kogonada.

Behind-the-scenes footage

From the film’s production.

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

60 + 39 =

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