Before Sunset

I've just watched an amazing movie called Before Sunset. It is the sequel to 1994's Before Sunrise, starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. The original cast (of 2) came back nine years later to finish off what the first movie started... Before Sunrise started with the chance meeting of Jesse and Celine in Vienna.. where they spent an evening together talking and learning about each other. Sadly they had to part ways before sunrise... and continue with their own lives. They agree to meet in Vienna again in 6 months on December 16th... and that is where the original leaves us.

The sequel picks up 9 years later when Jesse is in Paris for a book tour. We learn that they did not meet up in Vienna 9 years ago, due to unforeseen reasons. However, they now have the day to catch up and learn even more about each other... until Jesse has to return to America before sunset.

These movies may not cater for all, it consists of 2 actors talking (and not much else) for the whole 120 minutes... talking about this and that and everything in the universe. However it is a truly amazing movie about a connection between 2 people, sexual or not - a connection that you don't find every day. After 9 years apart, Jesse is now married with a son, and Celine is in a relationship... but neither can deny the chemistry and almost magical connection that they have.

It does beg the ever challenging question of "the one" and if there is only one out there. Strangely this movie made me think of Arthur's recent post (see my links) on finding love and the one. Jesse and Celine - from different sides of the world - met by chance in 1994. And again met by chance 9 years later. Chance? Who would bet on that? And yet without chance, they would not have met. How do you know that with a blink of your eye, you did not just walk past your one.....?

Lovely, beautiful movie... I have never been so engrossed in a conversation between 2 people as I have been in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset.

Watching these movies individually will pull at your heart strings. Watching them back to back will absolutely break your heart.