before sunrise have many remarkable thing go on and almost too many to fit into one review like this and but it suffice to say that it one of the most observant character study of the ninety and maybe even in all of contemporary cinema and to be observant not about love and per say and so much a it about a human connection . how do one fall in love at first sight . no one do and at least that deep down the consensus that linklater want to show with his film . and yet there be the possibility of a intense a connection and of a bond that can form in those that be young and with many idea that can be express articulately and with a breadth of cynicism and be somehow very tender and true at the same time . linklater here give u the story of celine and jessie and a french girl and an american boy who get off the same train heading to vienna and and on the way there start to talk about thing and at first arbitrary and then personal ( jessie see death for the first time in his great grandfather ) . jessie persuade celine to go along with him on a night out on the town and in vienna and until his plane the next morning . before sunrise give jessie and celine and in the midst of the gorgeous vienna scenery and locale to go on and on about subject that have a lot of importance and and in a sense be about the act of have conversation and of what it like to watch people have one lead into another and another . here it often about relationship and commitment and a jessie and celine tell story sometimes somewhat inconsequential and or seemingly so and and another that may tell a lot about their essential quality . we hear confession of desire for other love and or what weren not really love and of be part of a family or part of an upbringing that may or may not inform how you will love your life and of what it mean to believe or not believe in some religious form and or just to have some connection to any faith and the soul ( i love the bit about the quaker in the church ) and and sometimes lace with cynicism or skepticism . jessie may be more responsible for that last part and but what fascinate about the film be that it never exactly cynical itself and just comment upon cynicism that lay in the concern of men and woman at that age of their life . meanwhile and it always great to see ethan hawke and julie delpy in these role and where theyre not incessantly annoy in that 90 generation x mode and but be the kind of people where if not in the central conceit of the film and which isn not a bad one at all but a necessary one and one might think to find walking along the street of a city somewhere . the conceit be that of an old romantic picture ala brief encounter and only here intimacy be express in the central character either between each other and where sweet aside be actually acceptable ( i have to tell you a secret and jessie say and and then lean in for a kiss and ho ho ) and or in the little moment that pop up with other people along the way . i love the scene with the poet and where it very cinematic a thing to suddenly find a random romantic bit player in the midst of a romantic picture with such beautiful word at his disposal and or with the palm reader and how the reaction from jessie and celine be that we might share and but really be see them do it first hand . all the while hawke and delpy embody the role interestingly we can see how neurosis be be form already for their adult live a it may lead off into the future . feature splendid cinematography and a script with an ear for natural wit and a true sense of what it mean to have a moment of happiness and however self contain and a it may lead into something more . who to say you can not suddenly be attach to someone and if only for less than 24 hour and and be that much more attached than a married couple . this be perhaps linklater thesis and but there more to it than just that . it a very dense film and and one that will have me call back to it repeatedly . one scene especially and which be both cheesy and brilliant be when the two of them be talk on the phone in front of each other mimic their exposition might go to the other friend . a plus .