These movies are great bookends to each other. Snapshots of chance encounters full of hope and yearning and trying to pack far too much into far too little time. The antics we pull off as youth, and the more restrained but clear headed behavior of adulthood. Not quite chick flicks, otherwise I wouldn't feel compelled to watch them periodically. In fact I'm watching Before Sunrise now, and feeling very old as a result.
You see, it was filmed the same year I was studying in Nottingham and bumming around Europe during university holidays (1993-1994). I even made to Vienna for a week, and the movie rings true with some of my random encounters along the way. Granted, I never spent all night with someone as delicious as Julie Delpy, but you get the general idea. The movies also capture the grand yet human scale of two amazing cities that I explored in days gone by, and who wouldn't love that if not a city planner. Could this movie be filmed in an American city? Probably not given the lack of human scaled public spaces, save for a handful of coastal cities like New York or Portland. Anyway, I shan't go on and will end with a shot of me and a strange soul I met in Prague...
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