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Before Sunset (2004)

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Nine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other again on the French leg of Jesse's book tour.

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Early thirty-something American Jesse Wallace is in a Paris bookstore, the last stop on a tour to promote his best selling book, This Time. Although he is vague to reporters about the source material for the book, it is about his chance encounter nine years earlier on June 15-16, 1994 with a Parisienne named Celine, and the memorable and romantic day and evening they spent together in Vienna. At the end of their encounter at the Vienna train station, which is also how the book ends, they, not providing contact information to the other, vowed to meet each other again in exactly six months at that very spot. As the media scrum at the bookstore nears its conclusion, Jesse spots Celine in the crowd, she who only found out about the book when she earlier saw his photograph promoting this public appearance. Much like their previous encounter, Jesse and Celine, who is now an environmental activist, decide to spend time together until he is supposed to catch his flight back to New York, this ... Written by Huggo

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book | bookstore | love | train | american | See more »

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What if you had a second chance with the one that got away?

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Rated R for language and sexual references | See all certifications »

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17 June 2004 (Germany)  »

Also Known As:

Before Sunrise 2  »

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Budget:

$10,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$23,192 (Hong Kong) (15 October 2004)

Gross:

$5,792,822 (USA) (22 October 2004)
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Celine says to Jesse "You're a Scorpio, I'm a Sag (Sagittarius), so we get along." These are 'Ethan Hawke (I)' and Julie Delpy's signs in real life. See more »

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After getting off the boat, Celine hugs Jesse. The position of her arms changes, first right above left and then left above right. See more »

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[first lines]
Journalist #1: Do you consider the book to be autobiographical?
Jesse: Uh, well, I mean... isn't everything autobiographical?
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Referenced in Het glazen huis: Eigen agenda (2005) See more »

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How do you make a sequel to "Before Sunrise"? This is how.
29 October 2004 | by See all my reviews

I'd been longing to see this one as I'd always thought 'Before Sunrise' was one of the most honest, most real films I'd ever seen, but at the same time I held off seeing the sequel from fear of disappointment. For all of you in the same position, fear not ; Linklater, Hawke and Delphy (for it has surely been a joint effort and labour of love for all three) have done us and themselves proud. I've just seen the film and despite being male and 38 I feel like Roberta Flack must have felt when she penned 'Killing me Softly' after hearing Don McLean sing 'Vincent' in concert; this is - once again - just so close to what it's all about. You want technicalities? The acting, superb; Hawke and Delphy slip right back into their characters, their mannerisms, their sometimes gauche repartee, the way they seem to fence around each other, seeming to go in for the kill then feigning, drawing back…Exquisite. And then the details, the echoes of the first film in the settings but now with a world-weariness, an autumnal note and yet with still that fundamental freshness and optimism that revives the memories of Sunrise's youthfulness and reminds us, as our heroes discuss, that though time changes people, there remains an unchanging core. Just see it; this is about as good as it gets, folks.


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