Country: USA
Year: 2003
Duration: 80'
Nine years after Before Sunrise, Jesse and Céline, who met
by chance on a train and spent a night together in Vienna, meet up once
again. Jesse lives in New York, but he is in Paris to present his latest
novel. When he runs into Céline, both of them are immediately overcome
by the desire to catch up on what's new and spend some time together. He
has to leave for New York, but the two spend the entire afternoon
together, along the Seine and in the cafés of the city, rediscovering
the same feelings they had nine years earlier.
"To me, it's just an examination of how your life proceeds. All we can
do is live forward and you just do the best with everything around you.
It's very much the way the first film was - just a moment in time.
Before Sunrise was roughly 14 or 15 hours in these two people's lives at
an intersection in a town neither of them lived in. In that film, they
were ghosts in this city that they didn't really belong to, almost in
their own world, this ethereal world of their own imagination. This
movie is very much about and takes place in the real world. It's Paris.
She lives in Paris. It's her world, and it's very realistic." (R.
Linklater)
Biography
film director
Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater (1962) grew up in Texas. Reaching adulthood he settled in Austin, where he founded, with some friends, the Austin Film Society to promote auteur filmmaking, both by American independents and by foreign directors like Godard, Tarkovsky etc. In the meantime Linklater began making experimental films in Super8. In 1991 he directed his first "professional" feature film, Slacker, made on a shoestring budget with the help of his friends.
FILMOGRAFIA
It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (Super8, 1988), Slacker (1989), Dazed and Confused (La vita è un sogno, 1993), Before Sunrise (Prima dell'alba, 1995), Suburbia (id., 1996), The Newton Boys (Newton Boys, 1998), Waking Life (id., anim., 2001), Tape (2001), Live from Shiva's Dance Floor (cm, 2003), School of Rock (id., 2003), Before Sunset (Before Sunset - Prima del tramonto, 2003).