Remember in 'When Harry met Sally', Harry Burns had this peculiar habit of reading a book backwards. I don't have that problem but I, for one, did see the second part of a sequel without watching the first. Strangely, I don't regret it and like most of the people who can't wait to see the sequel, I can't wait to watch the prequel.
I am talking about 'Before Sunset' starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy and directed by Richard Linklater. It, IMO, is not a movie it's one hour and twenty minutes of meandering through the streets of Paris by two brilliant characters sketched by Hawke, Delpy and Linklater.
Before Sunset is an essay in human relations. It portrays the chasm in the life of the two characters left by the day they spent together in Vienna, nine years ago. Both Delpy and Hawke render brilliant performances. They are older and skinnier from their previous film, Before Sunrise, but still hopelessly in love with each other. There are moments in the film when Hawke looks at Julie with this touching helplessness, when she's not watching and she reaches out to almost touch him when he's not looking. The tension portrayed between them is mesmerizing.
The highest point of the movie is it's climax. Julie Delpy, in her melancholy song and the impersonation of Nina Simone leaves you with a feeling that's as simmering as the Chamomile tea she offers Hawke. Her dance fades into the titles and leaves you floating with the opening bars of her song....let me sing you a waltz!
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