how a conversation became the greatest love story in film

What's your favorite movie where nothing really happens but you still can't stop watching?
I love long takes, silence and great dialogue in film so I can definitely lose myself watching people living life and doing mundane things for hours, what about you?☀

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Before Sunrise is very good. Before Sunset is decent. The third is really bad.

I just re-watched all three films in a row and I still love them all. Conversational films like this, and Smoke with Harvey Keitel, awesome and worth the time even when not much stuff happens. The second film in this series is my favorite but they're all beautiful.

I only watched the first movie and it made it very hard to want to watch the others. The philosophy was very surface level, but so was the relationship... and I don't think age is an excuse for that, lest we start patronizing young people. The female lead was way above the male lead's league; whenever he opened his mouth it was hard for me not to cringe. He was just on a totally different spiritual and intellectual level. I kept wishing she'd end up with the random street poet they ran into, who seemed far more interesting. I had a very difficult time understanding why this movie was so acclaimed, and my girlfriend felt the same way. But then, she's like the female lead and I'm like the street poet, so maybe we're biased.

They are human stories just like why a lot podcast are booming because the style is just humans talking about different aspects of life.

A pretty girl taking pity on a eunuch is a novel idea. She's truly patient.

So sad the director couldn't get laid though - that gal definitely tripped hard when he actually made a movie about missing her signals.

What is the title of the music playing at 23:00?

I have watched the three movies that have been made multiple times.

The first movie, before sunrise,, as college students in their roles was creative and unique. The plot line and the way it was executed going through the city was beautiful…the dialogue and acting and directing were just above average. But the screenplay concept.was fabulous.

The second movie, before sunset, was the best of them all. The director with experience and the actors with experience. Remember these films were essentially a dialogue between a male and a female actress for 90% of the movie..

Before midnight, the third movie absolutely totally sucked. The director idiotically allowed the two main actors to have major inputs on the script.. Julie Delpy, was the problem. This was a depressing negative script all due to her. It killed the franchise totally.

The only way they come back for a fourth movie is for Linklater to have complete control over the script. And frankly, it’ll be a geriatric movie and too much time has passed for success other than art house.


Julie killed the franchise. A woke. feminist of the worst type..

Couldn't continue to watch this video cause I havent seen the last movie yet. The way the second one ended... I began to watch the third one, but nope, im gonna cherish the 2nd ending a little more. Maybe in a couple of years, when im closes to that chapter in life myself.

As a Viennese, I love the fact that after all those years Before Sunrise is still the film from my city with the greatest cultural impact

its a stunning trilogy.....the story transcends film....

As basic as it is, this trilogy got me into movies. I remember a summer I spent with my cousins in the Philippines. Rainy day and we couldn't do anything else. My cousin put on Before Sunrise and we were all hooked. We spent the afternoon watching the rest of the trilogy. From there, I became a letterboxd whore.

My mom showed me the first movie, and I loved it and then I Googled it and found out that it had a sequel, my mom never knew and we watched and loved it, and then the third one was announced and we went to the cinema to watch it. And as you say, it hits very different at different ages.

I first watched it as a child and i was surprised and amused by it. I used to tell people it was one of my favorite movies

Thank you for making this - you’ve shown me so much more in these films that I love. ❤️

Fun fact maybe.

The first background music is know as Sankta Lucia in Sweden and is a melody and song stricktly tied to winter and more specific december 13th when we celibrate Saint Lucia.
Never heard the melody outside of Sweden.

0:01 - 3:13

Americans watching for the first time what is essentially your average European arthouse film. If this were just another Rohmer or Godard, it would be considered one of dozens such films, banal French new wave... But because it’s an American film, people act as if it’s the GREATEST DIALOGUE IN CINEMA, the best romantic story ever told, and the greatest script known to man. It’s exhausting.

This video gives me goosebumps, I've never seen the films, but it is exactly how I met my wife, and we've been together for 20 years, parents to 2 boys. It feels like a Romance movie that has been running for 20 years...

In reality, love is a set of biological and psychological processes by which nature acts upon us to lead us to reproduce and remain together long enough to raise a new generation. Nothing more. We are the victims of these processes. This is often a source of pleasure and gratification, but we do not control the process. That being said, prioritize family and friends. If you have children, accept the idea that you may no longer love the person with whom you had them. It is almost inevitable. But continue to respect each other and be good parents, together or separately. Ah, love.... what a joke!

This whole franchise has a lot of meaning. The meaning of love, sacrifice, and emotion. Oftentimes we take love for granted. Sometimes we regret love. Sometimes we come to accept love for what it is. Sometimes it is best to let go. Sometimes it is okay to hurt. It is part of a cycle that never ends. I believe that is the meaning of life. The cycle of hurt and the cycle of love that come in full-circle.

24:59 hm thats why i loved before sunrise more than any other film. i was 15 when i first watched it and i had just been separated from a guy my age due to external factors. i related so much to having those transient conversations late at night, the kind you dont really thing you can replicate with anyone else, especially when you are 15 and lockdown has just barely lifted basking meaningful human connection in a golden light. i truly believed no one would ever understand me like he does and we would tell each other things we wouldnt even tell our closest friends. we were interested in the same things and honestly we learned so much about the most abstract topics from each other, challenging our beliefs and explaining our own. genuinely being honest and open listeners. we never labelled it anything, we didnt feel the need to yet we both knew how much we meant to each other. i wouldnt call it love, the word is simultaneously too heavy and too light for what we had. we reconnected this year and i recommended him the movie and similar to me he loved before sunrise but wasnt a big fan of before sunset haha. eh we grew up in different directions and the connection never felt as sublime as it did 4 years ago but i am truly grateful for getting the opportunity to feel so deeply.