i love this movie too, as well as its earlier counterpart before sunrise. top 5 for sure. and i’m not positive, but i think hawke, delpy, and linklighter worked on the script together, or at least some collaboration happened and maybe even a little improv at times? so all those smart things could be more real than you think … at least i like to think so.

ericaaaaa:

Before Sunset

I don’t like naming favorite movies, but this is probably it. I love the way it is shot, in the beautiful afternoon sunlight of Paris. I love the way Celine and Jesse have this tension that is both comfortable and awkward. I love the way Celine rambles on and says the smartest things as if it were nothing. (Sure, it’s scripted, but still. She could say them.) Whenever I’m filled with malaise and unsure of what to accomplish during any given day, I often find myself thinking of this quote:

I want to paint more, I want to play my guitar every day, I want to learn Chinese, I want to write more songs…There’s so many things I want to do, and I end up doing not much.

Yep, I relate to that all too well.

[photo via imdb]