Before Sunset

Before Sunset is a film that released in 2004. The film is a sequel of “before Sunrise” that was released in 1995. In the movie, Jesse meets Celine in Paris at an event of book signing after nine years of their previous meeting. The event was made for promoting the first novel of Jesse. The story of the novel is based on the story of Jesse and Celine

Richard Linklater directs the film like its prequel. The director himself writes the screenplay. But the lead actor and actress of the film also assisted him in screenplay writing – a thing that was not done in the previous film. Actor Ethan hawke played the role of Jesse in the film. Julie Delpy plays the role of Celine. How ever Kim Krizan, who was the screenwriter of the movie Before Sunrise and the director of the film share the credit of the story. The lead actress of the film actress Julie Delpy also wrote two songs that featured in the film. Another song that is written by he r is included in the closing credits and in the soundtrack of the movie. Long takes and the use of steadicam for the tracking shots are the characteristics of the film. Another important feature of the film is that the reel time and the real time of the film is equal to each other.

The film is all about the reunion of two long departed people Jesse and Celine who are meeting after nine years. They talk, walk, take a boat trip, and go to Celine’s apartment. The meeting makes one thing evident that though after nine years many things have changed their love for each other has not. Both of them are settled in life but not really living it to the fullest. The only moments they are truly happy are the time they are together. They try to hide and claim things in one scene and contradict them in the next scene revealing the hypocrisy. This makes the characters most real as most of us take the refuge of hypocrisy at times. In the course of the meeting Jesse and Celine shares a dialogic joy that shows the true love for each other’s words and thoughts. Though Before Sunset is considered as one of the most romantic film the characters of the movie do not kiss each other or say ‘I love you’ like many other romantic movies. Before Sunset is a movie that makes us take a look into our past and present relationships and fall in love over again. The film has an appropriate tagline that makes all of us think “what if you had a chance with the one that got away?” Wikipedia

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