Best. Sequel. Ever.

Rating: 10/10 (19 April 2011)

Really not into "romance" movies, but I just happened to watch "Before Sunrise" over a year ago, and was totally transfixed. And when I looked it up here, and saw "Before Sunset", I went straight back to the remote to see if they were showing it next.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
So it's been over a year, and I've totally forgotten about the movie(s). And then at 10:30 tonight, I'm surfing through cable no-man's land, and -- there it is, at 11:00. On Encore Love. Oh my.
Literally, I ran out and went to the store and bought some Pinot Noir, and came back to sit on my girlie couch and watch this.
In order not to give spoilers (although with a Linklater stream-of-consciousness movie, it's not as if there's a huge plot to give away -- this is not a criticism), I'll just say that this was absolutely everything one might have hoped for from a continuation of the story.
Both Delpy and Hawke are perhaps even better-looking than in the original, in a more mature, more seasoned sort of way. As he remarks in a conversation in a café, she is skinnier, and not as a criticism of how she was 9 years earlier. In this reviewer's opinion, she *does* look better, in her entire mien.
But, looks aside, their re-association is every bit as transfixative (yes, I know, IMDb spellcheck -- this is a made-up word) as their original association.
Simply beautiful.