Richard Linklater

Before Sunset

Before Sunset

In the breathtaking follow-up to Before Sunrise, 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.

Film Info

  • United States
  • 2004
  • 80 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.85:1
  • English
  • Spine #858

Special Features

DIRECTOR-APPROVED EDITION:

  • New, restored 2K digital transfer, approved by director Richard Linklater, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
  • Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, a feature-length 2016 documentary about the director by Louis Black and Karen Bernstein
  • Linklater // On Cinema & Time, a 2016 video essay by filmmaker :: kogonada
  • Behind-the-scenes footage from the film’s production
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Available In

Collector's Set

The Before Trilogy

The Before Trilogy

Blu-ray Box Set

3 Discs

$79.96

Collector's Set

The Before Trilogy

The Before Trilogy

DVD Box Set

3 Discs

$79.96

Special Features

DIRECTOR-APPROVED EDITION:

  • New, restored 2K digital transfer, approved by director Richard Linklater, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
  • Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, a feature-length 2016 documentary about the director by Louis Black and Karen Bernstein
  • Linklater // On Cinema & Time, a 2016 video essay by filmmaker :: kogonada
  • Behind-the-scenes footage from the film’s production
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Before Sunset
Cast
Ethan Hawke
Jesse
Julie Delpy
Celine
Credits
Director
Richard Linklater
Screenplay by
Richard Linklater
Screenplay by
Julie Delpy
Screenplay by
Ethan Hawke
Story by
Richard Linklater
Story by
Kim Krizan
Based on characters created by
Richard Linklater
Based on characters created by
Kim Krizan
Produced by
Anne Walker-McBay
Executive producer
John Sloss
Coproducer
Isabelle Coulet
Director of photography
Lee Daniel
Edited by
Sandra Adair

Current

The Before Trilogy and the Art of Collaboration
The Before Trilogy and the Art of Collaboration
In his ambitious, decades-spanning The Before Trilogy, Richard Linklater captures the complexities of love and time through the story of Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke), who fall for each other as twentysomethings on a train bound for Vi…
The Before Trilogy: Time Regained
The Before Trilogy: Time Regained

In his most seductive experiment with cinematic time, Richard Linklater wrestles with the joys and challenges of long-term intimacy.

By Dennis Lim