Before Sunrise on TCM

One of those movies I feel like I should have seen, but have never been able to make myself do it.

I love this series. “Before Sunset” is the best of the three but they are all wonderful.

I think it's sweet, and I have a low tolerance for treacle.

Julie Delpy was so adorable at this age. And Ethan Hawke, insufferable, quite charming in his insufferable way.

another example of a trilogy that should've been left alone as a one and done

While I absolutely see how these movies could be deemed pretentious, especially by people who haven’t seen them, I liked them quite a bit.

I was a freshman or sophomore in high school when I saw this. I absolutely loved it. Made me want to move to Paris and be an artist.

Sometimes a little pretentiousness is a good thing.

I don't see what makes the film pretentious.

Because it's in Paris, and he wears a turtleneck??

I absolutely love this series. Each film has a different feel reflecting a different stage in the two characters’ lives.

I was quite sad when Julie Delpy didn’t want to do a fourth one when the nine-year mark rolled around.

I am hoping for a return at some point.

R7 It’s not. OP is just stupid.

That's all it takes for the Freedom-fries troglodytes of Flyoverstan.

These movies are fucking horrible.

I enjoy all three of them—I guess I’m a sap. I don’t know. Ethan Hawke has never done anything for me, but I think he’s mildly charming in these, especially the first film. I love Julie Delpy and will watch her in anything. She sits a strange cross-section of earthy and ethereal that I find myself drawn to.

R11 Yet you watched all three to make that call?

I enjoy these but enjoyed Before Sunset the most. Before Midnight was a lil too real

So easy to rattle the cage of a hysteric like r11, so easily triggered.

I met Ethan Hawke at a screening of Boyhood. I’d always liked him well enough but had never considered myself a huge fan. But when I bumped into him in the theater and stumbled over saying hello he made me swoon.

OP, what’s wrong with turtlenecks? How are they supposedly “pretentious”?

OP doesn't understand the difference between pretentious and cliché and formulaic, which is what these movies are, but charmingly so. They are structured film fantasies, not naturalistic. But they aren't pretentious about it.

[quote] I was a freshman or sophomore in high school when I saw this. I absolutely loved it. Made me want to move to Paris and be an artist.

I have to admit that this movie inspired my first trip to Europe.

It wasn't anything like the movie (I went with my brother), but we still had a blast.

Ethan Hawke was normal before he made this movie.

After making this movie, he became an artsy stuck-up asshole prick.

Only recently, has he become a normal human being again.

[quote] OP doesn't understand the difference between pretentious and cliché and formulaic

You're the one who doesn't understand the word pretentious, cunt at R18.

Pretentious:/prēˈten(t)SHəs/ adjective attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.

That describes this movie (and Ethan Hawke) perfectly.

Now kindly fuck off, you pretentious CUNT.

R21 nurse is calling, meds time

I immediately assume people who use the word pretentious are dumbasses.

Used it

[quote] I immediately assume people who use the word pretentious are dumbasses.

Says the dumbass.

I loved it when I was 30; it's a good movie to see at that stage of life.

I love these movies. There is no reason that a movie about two people in their 20s wandering around Vienna and talking should be so good, but it is. I love all three, even though Before Midnight is fucking brutal. I also am disappointed that there wasn't a fourth 9 years after Midnight, but still, I love all three of these movies.

[quote] There is no reason that a movie about two people in their 20s wandering around Vienna and talking should be so good, but it is.

I think that's the most amazing thing.

They're just talking, and talking, and talking. Just the two of them.

It's really a testament to the excellent writers.

Before Sunrise is fine, but Before Sunset is wonderful.

Julie Delpy still looks the same.

Ethan Hawke was 25 years old and absolutely gorgeous in this movie.

I want to rest my head between Ethan's legs.

Before Sunrise is pretentious, but in the way that all early twenty somethings are pretentious. It makes sense within the film and is charming. Before Sunset is perfect. I could watch it over and over. Before Midnight for some reason doesn't stick with me as much as the first two. Maybe I need to see it again.

At the end of the movie, Ben Mankiewicz from TCM said that both actors and the director are open to a fourth movie.

And even though the traditional "9 year gap" in between movies has already passed (9 years after "Before Midnight" would have been in 2022), Ethan said that these movies have been the favorite acting projects in his entire career, and he wouldn't want to ruin that by rushing into a crappy script.

So he said they're willing to wait, until the right story comes along.

I just now searched it for the first time (Before Sunrise). It's a film I should have seen but never did for one reason or another.

It's very good. Delpy is excellent. Hawke, too, and his twisty smirk/smile. But then I like minimalist talky films. And more than a few times in the past, on my last night in a strange, far away city I've met someone and thought my life might change, and once it did.