Before Sunrise (1995) on Netflix
Jesse, an American heading to Vienna for a flight home, and Céline, a Parisienne, meet on a train out of Budapest. He asks her to roam the city with him.
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Plot summary
Jesse has spent weeks traveling Europe alone on a Eurail pass. Vienna is his last stop, and the next morning he flies home. Céline has been in Budapest visiting her grandmother; she is on her way back to Paris, where she studies at the Sorbonne. They fall into conversation on the train out of Budapest. Jesse asks her to step off with him in Vienna, where they can wander until his flight, since he has no money for a hotel room. She can leave at any time. Céline agrees, and they set out through the city, talking about life and love.
Cast
- Harold Waigleinas Guitarist in Club
- Bilge Jeschimas Belly Dancer
- Kurtias Percussionist
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Before Sunrise (1995)
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- In a 2016 interview, star Julie Delpy said she and Ethan Hawke essentially rewrote the entire script, arguing the original draft had little romance and that she supplied the romantic ideas without receiving a writing credit; credited screenwriter Kim Krizan publicly disputed that account in 2019.
- Director Richard Linklater spent nine months casting the two leads and almost passed on Ethan Hawke, initially thinking him too young for the role, until he saw Hawke in a play in New York and reconsidered.
- Before Sunrise was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry's class of 2025, as a film judged to be culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.
- The street poem the couple is given, "Delusion Angel", was written for the film by poet David Jewell, even though Jesse cynically claims onscreen that the man had already written it and simply inserts whichever word people choose.
- At the 1995 Berlin International Film Festival, Linklater won the Silver Bear for Best Director and the film was nominated for the top prize, the Golden Bear, while Hawke and Delpy picked up a Best Kiss nomination at that year's MTV Movie Awards.
- Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan worked out an outline for the film first, and then wrote the actual screenplay itself in just 11 days.
