Growing Up and Growing Apart

Rating: 10/10 (3 September 2010)

An achingly beautiful sequel to "Before Sunrise," Richard Linklater's film about a man and woman who meet in Paris and spend a week falling in love.
In this film, the two are reuniting after ten years, and it's full of the honest emotions that would attend such a reunion. Both are scared that their memories of what they connected to so much in the other won't be accurate, and that a moment that has been fixed in both their lives like a shining diamond will be tarnished.
"Before Sunset" pulses with the melancholy inherent in growing up and maturing. You don't necessarily regret how your life has changed, but that doesn't mean you don't look back with fondness at moments that seemed beautiful in their simplicity.
Grade: A+