Sublimity on film

Rating: 10/10 (7 October 2006)

Perhaps a true testament to the power of this seemingly simple film can be deduced from the number of people who have written reviews about it here on IMDb.com. Here are the numbers: 18,430 votes and 346 user comments. That comes to 1.9 comments for every 100 votes. Although 1.9% may not seem all that high, I couldn't find another movie that had a vote-to-comment ratio as high as 1.5%. And as can be seen, the substance of the comments about "Before Sunset" are further testimony to the impact it has had on those who have viewed it.
The movie plays by its own rules and may not be for everybody, but for those that it is, it touches them very deeply. And oh what an endingas one reviewer so aptly put it, the ending is "perfect" . . . Julie Delpy impersonating Nina Simone is as good as it gets.