Before Sunset - 2004

Before Sunset was not only written by Julie Delpy, but also Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan and Ethan Hawke. The latter plays the lead with Julie Delpy herself. The movie is the sequel to Before Sunrise dated of 1995 by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan. In the first movie, the two main characters Céline and Jessie had met on a train to Vienna and spent the night together getting to know each other until sunset. Céline, a French young woman is very romantic and give Jessie, a young American, her ideas and thoughts on love and life in general. Not much happens in the movie, it is only about two people talking, walking around a beautiful city and seizing the moment.
The sequel tells the second encounter of the couple, but this time in Paris. In the first movie, they promised each other to meet six months later at the train station, but Céline could not make it. So, they finally met again by chance nine years later in a bookstore. Since then, Jesse had become a famous novelist and had written an American best seller inspired by what happened nine years earlier with Céline. Jesse is doing a European book tour and lands up in Paris where he notices that Céline is in the room and smiling at him...
As in Before Sunrise, their time together is counted since he has a schedule to respect and a plane to catch very soon...

Céline has a boyfriend who is a photojournalist, and Jesse got married and had a child. She is now an advocate for the environment, and has been living in the USA for a while. He confides to her that he is not really happy with his marriage and he never really stopped thinking about her. They both very fast realize that they have not forgotten about each other. At the end of the movie, Jesse comes with Céline to her Parisian flat, and Jesse does not seem to want to catch his plane anymore...

The movie received a highly positive reception from the critics and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.