Sunday, May 31, 2009

Before Sunset (2004)

This is an okay movie. Jesse (Ethan Hawke) has written a bestselling book about his life and is now visiting Paris where the story takes place. He is questioned by journalists who are trying to determine if the events really happened. After he finishes signing his autograph, he leaves the bookstore with a woman (Julie Delpy) he met several years before. The pair walk the streets of Paris and discuss the events of the past nine years, while Jesse struggles over whether to abandon his current life in order to rekindle the fling.

This is the sequel to the film Before Sunrise (1995). The film was shot with the Steadicam and the longest scene was 11 minutes. The events in the story unfold in real time at about the same length as the film. The sequel was done nine years after the first film, which is the amount of time that elapses in the story. Hawke was going through a divorce with Uma Thurman during filming. The bookstore at the beginning of the film is Shakespeare and Company in Paris's Left Bank.

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