Before Sunrise Movie Review 1994

Light, "getting-to-know-you," romance unfolds as two 20-somethings share an unlikely 14-hour date. Gen-Xer Jesse (Hawke) and French beauty (Delpy) meet on the Eurail and he convinces her to join him in exploring Vienna and their mutual attraction before he heads back to the States in the morning. The two exchange life experiences and philosophies in the typical Linklater conversational fashion, but the film strays from the comical accounts of earlier works "Slacker" and "Dazed and Confused." Cinematographer Daniel captures the Old World with finesse, especially in the inevitable "first kiss" atop the Ferris wheel made famous in Orson Welles' "The Third Man."

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 101 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Drama, Singles, Trains, Generation X, Bar & Grill, Sex & Sexuality, Up All Night, A Day in the Life. . ., Director/Star Teams: Linklater & Hawke

Screenplay

Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan

Cast

Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy

Cinematography

Lee Daniel

Director

Richard Linklater

Other

Sandra Adair, Florian Reichmann

Producer

Anne Walker-McBay, Ellen Winn Wendl, Gernot Schaffler, Wolfgang Ramml, John Sloss, Castle Rock Entertainment, Inc. Filmhaus, Detour Filmproduction, Columbia Pictures

Awards

Berlin Intl. Film Fest. 1994: Director (Linklater).