Showroom Spotlight: Before Sunset 15

In the breathtaking follow-up to BeforeSunrise, Celine tracks down Jesse, now an author, at the tail end of his book tour in Paris, with only a few hours left before he is to board a flight back home to the States.

Meeting almost a decade after their short-lived romance in Vienna, the pair find their chemistry rekindled by increasingly candid exchanges about professional setbacks, marital disappointments, and the compromises of adulthood.

Impelled by an urgent sense of the transience of human connection, Before Sunset remains Richard Linklater’s most seductive experiment with time’s inexorable passage and the way love can seem to stop it in its tracks.

Showing alongside Before Sunrise and Before Midnight as part of our Lovers, Slackers and Rockers: Richard Linklater mini-season.

This film was selected for Showroom Spotlight by Richard Rawson, Administrator.