"The cornerstone of director Richard Linklater's career-long exploration of cinematic time, this celebrated three-part romance captures a relationship as it begins, begins again, deepens, and strains over the course of almost two decades. Chronicling the love of Celine and Jesse, from their first meeting as idealistic twentysomethings to the disillusionment they face together in middle age, The Before Trilogy also serves as a document of a boundary-pushing and extraordinarily intimate collaboration between director and actors, as Delpy and Hawke imbue their characters with a sense of lived-in experience, and age on-screen along with them. Attuned to the sweeping grandeur of time-s passage as well as the evanescence of individual moments, the Before films chart the progress of romantic destiny as it navigates the vicissitudes of ordinary life."--Set container.

"In the breathtaking follow-up to Before Sunrise, Celine tracks down Jesse, now an author, at the tail end of his book tour in Paris, with only a few hours left before he is to board a flight back home to the States. Meeting almost a decade after their short-lived romance in Vienna, the pair find their chemistry rekindled by increasingly candid exchanges about professional setbacks, marital disappointments, and the compromises of adulthood. Impelled by an urgent sense of the transience of human connection, Before Sunset remains Richard Linklater's most seductive experiment with time's inexorable passage and the way love can seem to stop it in its tracks."--Provided by publisher.

Notes

Based on characters by Richard Linklater & Kim Krizan.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2004.

Special features: New, restored 2K digital restoration, approved by director Richard Linklater, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio ; Richard Linklater: dream is destiny, a feature-length 2016 documentary about the director by Louis Black and Karen Bernstein ; Linklater // On cinema & time, a video essay by filmmaker :: kogonada ; behind-the-scenes footage from the film's production.