Summer of Love: Before Sunrise (1995)
Director: Richard Linklater Run Time: 101 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1995
Starring: Andrea Eckert, Erni Mangold, Ethan Hawke, Haymon Maria Buttinger, Julie Delpy
Country: Austria, United States
Language: English, German, French
Summer of Love
A celebration of indie romance, July through September at the Film Center.
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World Premiere, 1995 Sundance Film Festival.
Winner of the Silver Bear at the 1995 Berlin International Film Festival.
On his way to Vienna, American Jesse meets Celine, a student returning to Paris. After long conversations forge a surprising connection between them, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him in Vienna. Since his flight to the U.S. departs the next morning and he has no money for lodging, they wander the city together, taking in the experiences of Vienna and each other. As the night progresses, their bond makes separating in the morning a difficult choice.
“Before Sunrise is so much like real life—like a documentary with an invisible camera— that I found myself remembering real conversations I had experienced with more or less the same words.”
About the filmmaker:
Richard Linklater is an influential American film director, producer, and screenwriter whose bold anti-narrative approach to storytelling explores the subtleties of everyday life and the passage of time. His films have screened at Sundance, Venice, Berlin, Tribeca, SXSW, and other major film festivals. Filmed over 12 years, his feature film Boyhood (2014) received universal praise and earned Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
Among many other acclaimed films, Linklater directed the era-defining breakthrough Slacker (1990), the “Before” trilogy – consisting of Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013) – comedies Dazed and Confused (1993) and School of Rock (2003), the remake Bad News Bears (2005), dark satire Fast Food Nation (2006), and animated features Waking Life (2001), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood (2022). His latest feature Hit Man (2023) premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and the 80th Venice International Film Festival.
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