Smooth and real. You wonder if it's a movie.

Rating: 10/10 (1 October 2005)

There's one thing that strikes you about this movie: it TOTALLY does not seem like a movie. It is rare in cinema today that the dialogue (and that's virtually all there is in Before Sunset -- conversation between the principals -- and thank God for that) is so real and so smoothly, naturally and humanly delivered that you (sweetly) fall into a state where you think you're eavesdropping on two people riffing off each other, responding to what comes up next and, above all, NOT working off a script.
I discovered that the reason for this impression, for that delightful result -- other than the consummate acting skills of Delpy and Hawke, of course -- is the fact the two actors played the major if not total role in writing the screenplay. Boy, does that show. And wow, does that pay off.
What a gem!