"Jesse (Ethan Hawke) from Texas picks up Celine (Julie Delpy) from Paris on the Eurail. She’s a grad student at the Sorbonne, and he’s an aimless dropout heading home in the a.m. The twenty-somethings connect – at least enough for Jesse to persuade Celine to join him for a few hours in Vienna, Austria.They get off the train, see the sights, share opinions, make out in the grass, fall in love and, 14 hours later, say auf Wiedersehen.
"Before Sunrise is a sharp, sexy, funny romance with a radical core of intelligence that catches the fever and fleetingness of love. For this you can thank the beautifully nuanced performances of Hawke and Delpy; they are both terrific. But mostly you can credit director Richard Linklater, who wrote the sharply observant script with Kim Krizan. He sets the scrappy, seductive temperature of the relationship just right. He believes that his characters have brains as well as hormones and that it is worth two hours of our time to listen to them talk and observe the ritual of how and why they connect." - Rolling Stone