Before Sunrise
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VHS Movie Reviews of Before Sunrise
Movie Review: Frustrating
Summary: 3 Stars
I saw this movie when it first came out, but I was in Junior High then or something like that so I thought it was very boring. But since I'm older, I decided to give it another go. this time around, it wasn't as boring as I remembered it. It is a movie completely based in conversation...no action, no special effects, no real plot really, just 2 hours of 2 people talking. I've been there, done that, and usually I at least get my 2 cents in. Although the characters are engaging, it was frustrating to not be able to be a part of the conversation. Whats the point of watching a movie with 2 people having a very ordinary conversation when I can do that any day of the week and be the quiet silent one who says nothing all the time. So if you're bored and lacking of friends on a saturday, this is a good movie. But if you have friends you can go out with and chat with, then by all means go do that.Movie Review: Good Looking but empty
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a movie that you expect to be poignant and "deep" but is actually sort of annoying.Maybe it has a couple of nice scenes , but the banter between the characters wasn't particulary clever or deep or anything ,just very basic and self absorbed, almost like a parody of how "intelligent " people must talk. Not a single thing in the movie made me give a damn about them being together, thera was no tension, no ache, no conflict of any sort.
In the end is just good looking people talking and falling in love and trying to be smart and angsty and.....oh f off already!
Movie Review: A Definite Classic
Summary: 4 Stars
I watched this movie because I watched the sequel that's made nine years after "Before Sunrise" was made. Despite its age, "Before Sunrise" is still as relevant as ever, talking about love. How quaint that two strangers met on a train would transcend cultures, customs, languages and find a connection in one day. Love is truly a strange but wonderful thing. It's not the quantity of days that you love someone or someone loving you back but the quality of love that you transmit and reciprocate back from the other person. Love ain't acting lovey dovey to one another but the sensation of loving someone and being loved back. In this movie, we can feel it. The chemistry, the longing, the desire are all there. That makes it even more unbearable to continue watching when we know that when the sun rises the next day, they would go their separate ways. Yet, we are compelled to continue watching because we yearn for them to stick together just as any Hollywood movies would, offering gullible audience those cliche ending of living happily ever after. Real life is more complicated than that, lovers love one another and yet, they end up with other persons but does that mean that love would cease to exist there and then? Would it be right for the persons who don't end up with their loved ones to continue loving the persons that they wish they would end up with? Would that be a sense of betrayal to the present partners that the lovers end up being together with? If lovers truly meant for one another, wouldn't they just give up everything for the sake of love or being rational adults, they need to do what is deemed right? What is right and true anyhow? Ultimately, "Before Sunrise" and its sequel raises questions about love and as the end credit rolls, we would ponder upon this question for the longest time yet. A movie or movies that are worth watching to remind us about the virtue of love. Love is such a transient entity and yet, it lasts longer than the Roman Empire and even Christ Himself. No extra features on DVD but a definite collectible. A movie that you would revisit again and again. A very honest movie that's made on a shoe-string budget and a movie to remind studios that big budget doesn't necessarily move our heart strings but an original idea would, like this oneMovie Review: One of the most intelligent, honest romantic comedies ever
Summary: 5 Stars
Richard Linklater has got an ear for real-world dialogue. His characters don't speak in a hyper-cool, overly-stylized dialect that tangentially (if entertainingly) related to English, like the cons of "The Usual Suspects" or any of Quentin Tarantino's characters. Nope. Linklater's characters engage in ordinary, yet intelligent banter that makes them almost unnervingly familiar. And invariably endearing.
In his earlier movie, "Dazed and Confused," Linklater followed around a bunch of high school students on the last day (and night) of school back in the 1970s. Through a huge cast and an antiplot that careened from character to character linked virtaully only by their conversations, Linklater created the delightful sense that the audience was going back in time to their own high school years and seeing old friends.
In "Before Sunrise," the plot is not nearly as universal as "the last night of the school year." Ethan Hawke is Jesse, a slacker-ish American riding the Eurorail to Vienna. Julie Delpy is Celine, a young French woman heading to school at the Sorbonne. United by a distaste for overbearing Germans on the train, they strike up a conversation that lasts for the next 14 hours. When the train stops in Vienna, Jesse convinces Celine to help him spend time in Vienna before his flight to the States the next morning. Intrigued by both the man and the offer, Celine agrees.
What follows is an extended dialogue that belongs right up there with the great screenplays for romantic comedies, including "When Harry Met Sally" and "Shakespeare in Love." Wandering from locale to locale, Jesse and Celine bump into numerous colorful Viennese characters. But the focus of the movie remains firmly on their conversations with each other as they explore their mutual hopes, dreams, fears and desires, all spiced with that wonderful special something that inhabits every conversation when you know you're talking to Miss Right (or Mr., as the case may be).
Hawke and Delpy give virtuoso performances in this movie, as their deliveries and silences perfectly capture the dance of awkwardness, delight, and surprise as they continually discover each other. Similar characters, yet distinct, they have much in common and also have many unique traits. Given distinct yet intelligent voices, Jesse and Celine are as fascinating at the closing scenes as they were at the outset -- which is an achievement, considering how much talking has been going on.
Vienna and its sundry haunts play a vital role in the movie, as the melancholy beauty of this old city provides the perfect backdrop for a relationship that may or may not only last 14 hours.
All in all, "Before Sunrise" may be one of those rare movies that is better enjoyed at home than in a theater. Very few "laugh-out-loud" moments, numerous long stretches of conversation, and several meaningful silences make "Before Sunrise" an excellent movie to enjoy on the couch by yourself or with a loved one, for there is much to think about. I have rarely cared as much for two characters in a movie as I did for Celine and Jesse . . . the end of the movie leaves one anxious to learn more about both. Here's looking forward to "Before Sunset"!
A must for the film library.
Movie Review: Oh Vienna
Summary: 5 Stars
All within 24 hours, Richard Linklater captures the conversation between two traveling companions on a train and through the historic and bohemian cityscape of Vienna. Ethan Hawke (Jesse) and Julie Delpy (Celine) play the two romantics as they stroll down the streets of Vienna as they find out about themselves as well as of each other. BEFORE SUNRISE is one of those films about self-actualizing and self-discovery. Yes, there is a lot of talk and less action, but it is a simple film with an exchange in ideas and philosophizing from each of the actors, which makes the film so entrancing. The film has a Woody Allen ("Annie Hall") and Rob Reiner ("When Harry met Sally") feel to it, but without too much angst and whining.
The characters in BEFORE SUNRISE are the most interesting aspect of the film. One may consider these two individuals as complete opposites, Jesse, a drifter who takes a European trek, Celine, a French graduate student visiting a relative. Although that may be the case, it is the dialogue that they engage in, which is absolutely timeless. Jessse appears to be the pragmatic and skeptic type, while Celine appears to be the hopeful and optimistic type who is open to outside influence. For the most part, the content of the film is universal, the connection that is made between two people regardless of what geographical region they come from. The characters make reference to each of their respective countries, U.S. and France, and their cultures as well social quirks that have left an impression on their lives.
Linklater's direction and Kim Krizan's screenplay gives BEFORE SUNRISE a natural look. The handheld camera method as well as the quick cuts and long shots, such as when Jesse and Celine stand inside a listening room as the needle drops playing Kate Bloom's "Come Here," is effective. In addition, the actual setting, Vienna, the initial backdrop of the film is captured, which romanticizes the image that Europe is the place where the young seek refuge before their rite of passage - taking a trek after college or study abroad, etc.
BEFORE SUNRISE is a film that may take several viewings to get into. It is not for the viewer that cannot sit still and listen to. However, it is a film for those who enjoy romantic films without the gloss and mayhem.