Which of the two films do you like the most?
For me it's sunset, which is my favorite film of all time and sunrise is a close second.
Which of the two films do you like the most?
For me it's sunset, which is my favorite film of all time and sunrise is a close second.
Sunrise doesn't work quite as well on repeat viewings, though it's still a very fun time.
Sunset is pretty much perfect. Hence why I'm so scared for Midnight.
"I shall immediately after I'm done watching Homeland." - DirkDiggler on his voting priorities
Sunset. The maturity makes it way better.
I'm nervous for Midnight but mainly because I want them to keep making these every 10-15 years until they die. The Up series, fiction version.
The fact that people keep calling it a "conclusion to the trilogy" is really scaring me. But then, people were skeptical about there being a follow-up to Sunset, so.Originally Posted by Artimus
God I hope SPC releases it sooner rather than later.
"I shall immediately after I'm done watching Homeland." - DirkDiggler on his voting priorities
How about a 'Neither' option?
I will marshall all the forces of darkness to hound you to an assisted suicide - Peter Capaldi, In The Loop
I haven't seen either yet!I'm hoping to have a double feature some night soon.
I watched both recently figuring it seemed like a good time to finally get around to it. The first one actually didn't really get me, but I loved the second one.
Sunset. I'm too cynical for the optimism of Sunrise, even though it's great.
I'm worried about Midnight, because the ending to Sunset is perfect.
Before Sunrise.
I need to revisit Before Sunset, though.
Haha, I would like to read your take on these?
He probably ranks them just above Tokyo Story.
Sunrise, with all his flaws, for its honesty, originality and immaturity. Sunset was a strong follow-up no doubt (although I have not seen it as many times as Sunrise.) Eagerly waiting for Midnight.
LOL, not even I was as negative as Negative Nancy Aurelius and voted Sunset. But I should rewatch Sunrise because nowadays I feel like I'd like that one better. You know, without the pretension of being meaningful despite being based on Nora Ephronish concepts.
Saw the two films in two following days and enjoyed the first one more.
Oh, I'm not very negative about the films, I'm just very negative about the fawning over them. I too would vote Sunrise if I had to, but I quite like your Nora Ephron remark, which is how I feel about both films (but indeed, Sunset a little more so).
I will marshall all the forces of darkness to hound you to an assisted suicide - Peter Capaldi, In The Loop
While Before Sunset is a richer, funnier film I still slightly prefer the bittersweet feeling of possibility that hovers over Before Sunrise. Though like Kieslowski's Three Colors, I prefer to think of these as one film, a brilliant film.
I'm so happy to read this review (skipping over the actual plot points) by Variety's Justin Chang ...
One of the great movie romances of the modern era achieves its richest and fullest expression in "Before Midnight." Exquisite, melancholy, hilarious and cathartic, Richard Linklater's third walking-and-talking collaboration with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy turns a summer night's Grecian idyll into a typically digressive and cumulatively overwhelming essay on the joys and frustrations of (spoiler alert!) long-term commitment and parenthood. Answering the question of whether we needed another date with Jesse and Celine with a resounding yes, this wise and wondrously intimate picture should gross somewhere in the modest vicinity of its predecessors while sending faithful fans, and perhaps a few new ones, into the emotional stratosphere.
If 1994's "Before Sunrise" was a touching paean to possibility and 2004's "Before Sunset" a piercing ode to regret, then "Before Midnight" encompasses all these feelings and more within a full-bodied portrait of a devoted couple facing early middle-age. A marvel of narrative compression, the screenplay (like "Sunset," written by Linklater, Hawke and Delpy) is equal parts naturalism and exposition, strategically updating the audience on the characters' busy lives while keeping immediacy and spontaneity at the fore.
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Honoring all that was memorable about its forebears while taking the story to new depths of catharsis, "Before Midnight" stands as a unique and uniquely satisfying entry in what has shaped up to be an outstanding screen trilogy (not to preclude the possibility of a fourth chapter). Inadvisable though it may be to go in cold, the film's more robust content provides strong entry points for viewers meeting these characters for the first time, and could even win over those who expressed impatience with the more evanescent first two pics.
Delivering vanity-free turns in which no apparent effort has been made to disguise wrinkles or sagging eyelids, the actors have melded so completely with their roles as to seem incapable of a false note; rewardingly, Hawke for the first time seems to truly match Delpy in emotional stature. The lightly self-reflexive script includes more than a few references to and examples of role play, reminding viewers of the artificiality of two characters who couldn't seem more authentic.
full review
And then later in a conversation ....
Justin Chang (Variety) - "Before Midnight" -- if Hawke, Delpy and Richard Linklater had plunged any deeper into those characters' psyches, we might have had a slasher movie on our hands. I typically come to Park City expecting discoveries, not masterpieces, and so it was a shock of the happiest kind to encounter a truly world-class piece of filmmaking, Cannes competition-caliber stuff, from a director who seems to have absorbed the various influences of Rossellini, Rohmer, Bergman and even Kiarostami into his very being.
Will the filmmakers from this year's promising pack have aged so well 20 years hence? When Linklater first showed up at Sundance with "Slacker" and "Before Sunrise" in the early '90s, he was helping to pioneer a filmmaking movement that clearly informs the mumblecore movies and low-budget two-handers that make up part of today's American indie landscape. Yet the way Linklater's work has deepened -- gaining in craft and assurance without sacrificing that searching, spontaneous quality -- strikes me as both remarkable and rare.
If I love Midnight as much more than Sunset as I love Sunset more than Sunrise...
I don't think that's possible.
But I'm all for impossibilities.
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