Just slightly better than Before Sunrise

Rating: 5/10 (23 May 2005)

I saw Before Sunrise last night and wrote that I was going to see Before Sunset today (they were standing next to each other in the video store), just to check whether Linklater shared my views that the first film was boring etc.
Only marginally so! Boring again: enough said. The drama never comes across, not for one second. Probably none of the three (Linklater, Delpy and Hawke) has ever lived through a real heartrending romantic affair, witness these two films.
SPOILER:
Silly Hawke laughing politely on the couch when Delpy sings her waltz (nice). He should have fainted, have a stroke, tear his hair out in torment (he's going to make his little son very unhappy), to be true to the character: so desperately in love!
How pathetic and impotent. What a feeble way to paint love is this film.