Before Sunrise - Before Sunset

We recently watched two movies from Netflix. My husband insisted on watching since he had heard that they were great movies but I hadn't heard anything about them before. As you may have guessed the movies are related. Before Sunset is a sequel to Before Sunrise. Both movies basically have two characters, a man (played by Ethan Hawke) and a woman (played by Julie Delpy). If you're looking for some action these movies will not give you that because they are based on the dialogues between the two characters. IMDB categorizes both of the movies as romance and drama.

Before Sunrise Poster

The first movie, Before Sunrise was released in 1995. In the story a man and a woman meet on a train in Europe. The man is a young American who will be going back to his country the next morning and the woman is from France. The young man needs to get off the train in Vienna because his flight will be leaving from this city the next morning and he does not have money to spend on a hotel so he asks the young French girl if she will join him until he has to leave for his flight the next morning. And to his luck the French girl says yes! They spend the night walking the streets of Vienna talking about, well, anything really :). So there is a lot of talking going on in the movie and to admit at first I was a little bored but I kept watching. Finally when the movie was over I thought it was very different from the movies I watched recently and was I glad that I kept watching!

Before Sunset Poster

The second movie, Before Sunset was released in 2004, 9 years after the initial movie. The same characters from the first movie reunite after 9 years. The young American man has written a book about his encounter with a French girl in Europe 9 years ago and that same French girl has read the book. The man comes to Europe to promote his book and in his final destination, which is Paris, the French girl makes an appearance at his last interview. Afterwards, they spend the rest of the day together until the man has to leave for America again. As expected they do a lot of talking and catching up :). They are both curious about what the other one was up to during the 9 years they were apart.

Both of the movies' ratings are the same, 8.1 out of 10 on IMDB and this means a lot of people liked it :). If you're looking for something original I can definitely suggest this series. However, if you're in the mood for a classic Hollywood movie you may get bored while watching.