It's such a perfect day

Rating: 8/10 (10 February 2005)

Richard 'Slacker' Linklater does the near impossible and revisits the tentative, beautifully played Brief Encounter romance of his 1995 film Before Sunrise with insight, sensitivity and intelligence.
Nine years after they shared 14 hours in Vienna, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) meet again when he's a successful author on a book tour in Paris.
He has a flight home in the evening, so they have just a few hours to explore the feelings they have for each other and rekindle the soaring emotions they first felt.
Love, life, the universe and everything drift by like the Seine and somehow manage to duck every cliché in the book.