Waltz in Paris

Rating: Null/10 (4 August 2009)

Ethan Hawke is Richard Linklater. That may sound sort of weird but let's see: Richard Linklater's personal experiences were the inspiration for Before Sunrise (apparently he met a woman at a toy shop in 1989, from the IMDb trivia: the idea for the movie came from a night Richard Linklater spent walking around Philadelphia with Amy, a woman he met). Of course the fictionalized version ended being the film so we can say Hawke, as Jesse, is Linklater but also, and this take us to Before Sunset, Jesse will do or better said did just what Linklater did that is fictionalize a personal experience. I love the way Before Sunset begins: Jesse is in Paris at a book store talking about his book, a fictionalized version of a personal experience, when he met a French woman on a train and spent the night with her. Linklater may had to answer the same questions the journalists asks to Jesse, they wonder if the book is based on personal experiences, they wonder about what happened to its characters so when Jesse confirms the fact that his book is based on a personal experience the question is "Jesse, did you see her again?". So in the film there are characters that wonder the same that us the people who is seeing the film, and we only see few but Jesse's bock is actually is best- seller yet we are the only ones who will know everything yet this sequel ain't any kind of conclusion, actually here we don't see plans, there's nothing like a "how about six months?" thing.
Some weeks ago I finally saw one of the most acclaimed films from Linklater, "Sunrise" certainly, and as I wrote in my IMDb comment of it took me a lot to finally check it out since I always had the feeling it was not going to be really my cup of tea but after seeing it I was mostly glad, it isn't really a masterpiece for me or one of my favourites from Linklater but I sure like it. Its sequel, released back in 2004, on the contrary was an instant "wanted film", and in the end I liked more this one, not really much more but overall if someday I watch again just a half of the 3 or so hours romance from Linklater I would like to watch again this half, however I don't see that day in a near future.