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That they have not penned a script or started shooting yet should not present
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More difficult would be what to call it, now that the dusk and dawn conceit has
been exhausted. "Before Death", perhaps.
In any case, haven't audiences already seen enough? Before Sunrise defined an
era when it was released in 1995. In it, an American man and a French woman in
their early twenties start chatting on a train from Budapest. Both beautiful,
passionate and berintellectual, or at least trying to be, they hit it off and
Jesse, (Ethan Hawke) convinces Cline (Julie Delpy) to abandon her journey and
join him for a day in Vienna, where he has to catch a plane the next
morning.
Nothing much actually happens they walk, they talk and yes, eventually make
love but somehow this simple tale, told in startlingly realistic long takes and
a meandering script in which the couple discuss everything from war to
reincarnation, so resonated with young audiences that the film doubled its
budget at the box office.
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first to you when you least expect it. "Sitting for weeks on end looking
out of this window has actually been kind of great," Jesse notes sagely. Just 14
when I first saw it with some friends, all greasy hair and teenage pimples, we
wondered when we would have the freedom to InterRail around Europe, jumping off
at exotic destinations whenever we chose.
In retrospect, though, part of what makes the film so realistic is that it is
underwritten with a tangible sense of insecurity and a fear of growing up. As an
adult it is striking how young the couple seems, and how naive and pretentious
their conversations are "I hate that the medias are trying to control our
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new form of fascism."
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connection is still there. Like the first film, the second, though more sombre
and reflective, leaves us on tenterhooks. "Baby, you're gonna miss that plane."
sings a still very sexy Cline to a Nina Simone song. "I know," Jesse grins back
at her. Fade to black. But will he?
Both films worked because of an exquisitely balanced tension: despite an
insistence on realism (Sunset even takes place in real time) our hopefulness
that things will somehow work out persists. Time constraints, in the form of
Jesse's departure, force the issue to a climax as both films end.
Could a third film really replicate that tension without it seeming
contrived? Another will they, won't they plot would feel tired and unlikely. If
it turns out that they have ended up together after all, I wonder if the lack of
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work might be felt too keenly.
There's no doubt that Hawke, Delpy and Linklater are talented enough to
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we want from this couple?
Like a slowburning version of Franois Ozon's 5x2, that gloomiest of marriage
studies, might further scrutiny of Jesse and Celine not pollute the magic of
their first encounter in the very way they themselves dreaded?
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