Best romantic movie of 2004!

Rating: 10/10 (26 July 2004)

Before Sunset (2004) is a quiet romantic masterpiece.
This movie picks up where the excellent film Before Sunrise left off nine years earlier. Director Richard
Linklater puts two outstanding actors on the screen and then lets them interact for 80 minutes in "real time."
In Before Sunset Jesse (Ethan Hawke) has written a bestseller. The plot of this novel is his short encounter with Celine (Julie Delpy). Celine has read the book, and has sought out Jesse who is promoting the book at an English-language bookstore in Paris.
What follows is one the most naturalistic series of interactions between two people that I've ever seen in a film. Both actors are given script credit.
Obviously they improvised much of the dialog within the basic plot context.
The film's visual aspect is enhanced by the lovely scenes of Paris, and the ethereal beauty of Julie Delpy, who is exactly right for the part.
Before Sunset is an intelligent and entrancing film.
See it!