Before Sunrise

directed by Richard Linkletter (1995)

I haven't watched this since I saw it when it was first released.   It holds up really well because it's a very simple story.  Boy meets girl on a train and they spend a day together.  It's a relationship compressed down to its essentials and you get to see them gradually fall in love while having dialogues on everything from their past relationship mishaps to what love is and what gives meaning to life. And that's it, not much else happens. They wander around Vienna which makes for some beautful backdrops, in the space they've carved out for togetherness, seperate from their day to day existence, and it's magical romantical.

Julie Delpy is a beauty, and Ethan Hawke is a good looking man, but they're both a little unkempt and regular folk looking too.  They're not super made up perfect looking movie stars and that makes what happens more believable.   Just two strangers on a train taking the chance to be vulnerable enough to fall for each other. 

I love this scene near the beginning when they're at a record store in the listening booth, it's deliciously awkward.

but the movie's strength is the dialogue...actually that's the whole movie. 

I also liked this version of a Daniel Johnston song which plays over the credits.  It's a lovely cover.