My experience with other Linklater films had me anticipating this one to a possibly unhealthy degree, and it didn’t live up to my expectations. I think he does better with college and later than with high school, because Dazed and Confused was all right, but not great. Basically it follows a couple of freshmen as [...]
I wasn’t sure what to expect from this early Richard Linklater film, which has gained a good bit of renown in indie film circles, pretty much because I simply didn’t read much about it before I watched it. There’s not a plot at all really, as Linklater simply follows a series of young Austinites (highly [...]
In one sense it was very nice to be able to spend more time with Hawke and Delpy’s characters from Before Sunrise. Nine years after they parted in Vienna (and failed to keep their date to meet up again a year later), they run into each other in Paris and wonder if this is their [...]
Beautiful film. Not showy, not spectacular, just very quiet and honest and sweet. Ethan Hawke is an American about to spend his last day in Europe in Vienna when he meets a French girl, Julie Delpy, on her way back to Paris. He convinces her to get off the train with him in Vienna, and [...]
