Before Sunrise 

Dir. Richard Linklater. 1995, 101 mins. 35mm. With Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy. On June 16, 1994, a young American named Jesse met a young Parisienne named Céline on a train shuttling through Europe and, sensing an immediate attraction, the two decided to spend a day together walking and talking through the streets of Vienna. From this unplanned encounter a romance was born that would spark an improbable, magnificent movie trilogy that has become one of the most fervently adored cinematic love stories ever told. In this first part, Hawke and Delpy establish themselves as quintessential Gen-Xers, romantic, idealistic, and intellectually searching as they try and figure themselves and each other out over the course of one day and night. Coming after Linklater’s mainstream breakthrough Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise confirmed that this American original had much to offer nineties viewers looking for humane, chatty entertainment. Linklater and Kim Krizan’s script—with assist from Hawke and Delpy—is so teeming with authentic exchanges and generational observations that any given scene feels like a classic. “A great film by any objective artistic criteria . . . a film ultimately about the persistence of the romantic ideal, or more simply, movie love in the postmodern age.” —Erik Syngle, Reverse Shot 

Tickets: $15 / $11 senior and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission. Review safety protocols before your visit.

See the whole Before trilogy for $33 on either November 25 or 26. Purchase combo ticket here (discount offer only valid for seeing all three films on the same day).  Before Sunset screens at 4:00 and Before Midnight at 6:00.