A Dream Come True

Rating: 9/10 (1 May 2020)

After each time that I have watched Before Sunrise, I've wanted my memory to be erased so that I could watch it like the first time. It is one of the best romantic movies to have ever been made. The movie is loosely based on the life of the director Richard Linklater himself. An American man named Jesse (Ethan Hawke) meets a French girl named Celine (Julie Delpy) on a train and the two decide to get off at Vienna. What follows after is a tale of two strangers talking through the streets of Vienna, getting to know each other and having fun while they are at it. The dialogues seem natural and realistic, the setting couldn't be more perfect, the shots are stunning and the performances by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy are applause worthy. To get down from a train with a beautiful and charming stranger to a beautiful unknown place would be like a dream come true for all of us, and Before Sunrise is just that. It is a dream come alive on screen.