Monday Night Movie - The Director's Cut: "Before Sunrise"

Welcome to The Director's Cut! Beyond being a voracious reader, Library Director Kiera Parrott is also an avid film aficionado. She particularly loves Technicolor-soaked musicals, richly designed historical pieces, smart drama… and she can’t resist a thrilling work of sci-fi horror. For the first Monday of January through April, Kiera has selected a personal favorite film to share—the “Director’s Cut”—ranging from the romantic to the spine-tingling.

This week we are showing “Before Sunrise.” 

“The film follows Jesse (Ethan Hawke), a young American man, and Céline (Julie Delpy), a young French woman, who meet on a train and disembark in Vienna, where they spend the night walking around the city and getting to know each other. Jesse is a romantic disguised as a cynic, and Céline is seemingly a romantic, albeit with some doubts. Taking place over the course of one night, their limited time together is always on their minds, and leads to their revealing more about themselves than they normally would, since both believe they will never see one another again.”– Warner Brothers   

Director: Richard Linklater

Year: 1995

Starring: Ethan Hawke as Jesse and Julie Delpy as Céline. 

This movie is 1 hour and 41 minutes and is rated R (for strong language). 

Watch the official trailer.