Before Sunset
(2004)
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
"You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details." - Celine
For some strange reason {or too many reasons to concisely wrap up with a neat little bow} ] Richard Linklater entrances and violently plucks at the strings of my heart and imagination like no other director or filmmaker I've ever been witness too. Before Sunset is a beautiful film that is extremely definitive in his career, the characters played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy play a consistently important role through three of his films: in Before Sunrise (the prequel to Before Sunset) and also in a short in Waking Life (my favorite film). You feel as if you've been granted the power of invisibility and have stumbled across one of the most interesting, life changing conversations going on in the world at that moment in time. But the beauty of Linklater is that he can create that sense of awe and simultaneously cultivate the thought in the viewers mind that it is just a fleeting moment that could be being had by someone else. The culminating moments of peoples lives; "Life is more than the sum of it's parts kiddo" you can almost hear him whispering.
"Memories are wonderful things, if you don't have to deal with the past."
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