after a chance encounter on the train and a young couple spend a single night stroll the street of vienna and discuss life and love . the primary reason to see before sunrise and be to watch a young julie delpy deliver her line . a celine and this sexy and brainy and soulful brown eye blond be sort of a cross between brigitte bardot and joni mitchell a they be in their mid twenty . risk overstatement and celine be practically the ideal woman and unusually beautiful and very feminine while be natural and unpretentious and introspective and and selflessly love . we can easily forgive that she be a bit eccentric and talk a blue streak and for her sincere and intelligent remark be occasionally penetrate . far and her varied expression be nothing short of captivate and she speak english with a french accent that be very endearing . if there be a fly in the ointment of this good movie and it would have to be her unkempt and disheveled costar . ethan hawke a jessie come off like a vaguely appeal slob and sort of a maynard g. krebs of the ninety . attempt to appear detach and nonchalant and he sort of drag himself through certain shot . his pant fit poorly and his tee shirt be come untucked and his wavy dark hair ( his most attractive feature ) need a good washing and and someone really should have show him how to properly trim his youthful goatee . nevertheless and he be suppose to represent an unwashed youth on a two week train ride around europe and so the look he have cultivate be probably pretty genuine . his oft cynical observation and wry sense of humor seem to impress the unapologetically romantic celine and although she be occasionally disturb by the extent of his alienation . when he finally admit to her that he be utterly sick of himself and like be near her because he feel like a different person in her presence and we know he be get somewhere . after blow their collective fund on a series of cafe and bar and and silly diversion and they agree that because they may never see one another again and they should make the most of it . jesse bum a bottle of red wine off a sentimental bartender so that he and his newfound lady love may repair to a local park in the middle of the night to lie on the grass and look up at the moon and the star and watch the sun come up . give his boundless luck in the romance department and it be especially irksome when jessie and a the very definition of a naive jerk and foolishly allow this wonderful young lady to slip from his grasp . he content himself with a half baked plan and quickly devise at the railroad station when he bid her adieu and to reunite at the same spot in half a year . when the appoint time come and you just know this beautiful and unusual girl will be involve with another and perhaps even married and pregnant . for whatever reason and she probably would not show and while jesse and who end up work at target or ( if he lucky ) the local library and will go back to vienna and desperate to see her again and only to wind up alone . despite what for me be a very discouraging conclusion and before sunrise be a beautiful movie . i highly recommend both it and the sequel and before sunset .