Before Sunset

“Baby… you are gonna miss that plane.” Intoxicating and mesmerising, feels like something captured rather than staged. The car ride is profound – the text, the subtext, the honesty, the chemistry, the intimacy, the magic. There are new stakes, new barriers not present before, and having context of their previous encounter heightens every syllable spoken. They are more measured, more formed in their ideals, more bruised and cautious, yet ache for what should be.  Céline picking up that guitar is one of the most romantic things I’ve seen on screen, followed closely by some of the best closing lines of all-time. “I know.”