I checked what was on. I was in the mood for a love story, to be more precise, an intelligent love story.
It was an easy choice. It has to be Richard Linklater’s ‘Before Sunset’!

I had seen ‘Before Sunrise’ and it is one of my all time favorite films.
Two young travelers, brash young American Jesse and delicate Parisian Celine, played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, meet on a train going through Vienna. Jesse takes up the gauntlet and asks Celine if she’ll spend the night with him exploring Vienna. She takes up the offer and so starts one of the most beguiling romantic stories I’ve seen.

The pair say their tearful goodbyes around sunrise, as Celine reboards train, and agree to meet exactly one year later at he same spot.
We find out in the sequel ‘Before Sunset’ that the pair never met the following year.
It is some nine years later and Jesse is now a famous author doing a launch circuit. He is at a Paris bookstore fielding questions from the local
intelligentsia when Celine peers through the bookstore window. A local, Celine has seen a flyer featuring Jesse’s book launch around town and decided to catch up with her old flame.
The old flames spend the rest of the day together before Jesse gets his flight back to New York.

The bottom line is that ‘Before Sunset’ has the same magic recipe that graced the original. The film features deep, intimate conversations where no subject or feeling is off limits.
Little nuances of character reveal how the couple got on so well even though they are very different people.
How to describe them?! Jesse with his artistic temperament has his brooding intensity, Celine with her unpretentiousness, candid and easy going nature.

The film has a bonus seeing Julie Delpy perform her own ballad on guitar.
near the close of the film.
My verdict, this was a dreamy, very dreamy film. It was a shame that it had to end.