I wished I've never seen this film. A true Masterpiece and Epitome of the Romance genre.

Rating: 10/10 (22 August 2018)

God damn it, this movie messed me up real bad, it made me wanted to hop on a train in Eastern Europe and meet a girl to experience one night like this. Although I must admit that this film is not for everybody, nothing really ever happens in it and it's just 90 minutes of bonding via conversations between Jesse and Celine played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, and walking around in Vienna. But this is exactly the reason why it's such a great film, it offered us a realistic look at relationships with the magic and beauty of communicating between one another, from being strangers on a train to lovers in one night. And another reason why this film is such a triumph is that the dialogue of this movie is so genuine and pure and romantic at the same time but also doesn't feel too fantasize and over exaggerated. This wouldn't have been achieved without the perfect performances by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, they've successfully channel and capture the true emotions and reactions in every scene in this movie so effortlessly that it doesn't feel like acting at all. And my God the ending though, it tears me up and makes me feel heartwarming at the same time to know that they just completely regretted what they just planned and wish to meet again in 6 months time in Vienna, but us as audience knows that they'll eventually missed their planned reunion and only meet again after 9 years in the sequel Before Sunset. Although Before Sunrise is still my favorite film out of the 3 movies in the trilogy, I absolutely love each and everyone of them as each of it have their own unique themes of young love, reconnecting, staying true and together to each other. I'm pretty sure that after watching this film most of us would die for a night like this in their life, because this is real romance at its finest. At this day and age, most romance movies, someone is always dying or doing something overly dramatic. This is so cliche and overused as it takes away the realistic and sincerity take of the emotions of 2 people connecting, so I am very grateful that Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and Richard Linklater gave us this trilogy. While I'm aware of the Godfather Trilogy and Dark Knight Trilogy, but The Before Trilogy just takes the top spot of greatest trilogy of all time for me. The Before Trilogy is the epitome of the romance genre.
Overall : 10/10