Richard Linklater - Before Sunrise

This is one of my favorite movies because it hits on so many sentimental levels with me. It may very well be the most romantic movie ever filmed, and I am a romantic at heart so it really resonates with me. Like most of Linklater's work this is a very dialogue based film. Linklater teamed up with Kim Krizan to write the script and its near perfect. It's about two strangers (Ethan Hawk, the American, and Julie Delpy, the beautiful Parisian) who fatefully meet each other on a train and get off at Vienna and have one night to get to know each other and connect. They do connect, and very passionately so, as the evening progresses. Hawks character is cynical, much like myself, but also a romantic at heart. Delpy's character is similar and because of this they really hit it off as they began to divulge more intimate details about their lives. It almost seems like they've spent a year's worth of getting to know each other in just a single night. My favorite scenes are the listening booth scene with Kath Bloom's "Come Here" playing and the two characters beginning to awkwardly fall for each other, the heavenly kiss scene during the gorgeous gloaming atop the Wiener Riesenrad Ferris wheel, and the heartbreaking, lachrymose departure at sunrise. Oh how I long for such a night - not a hedonistic one night stand - but a real love at first sight type of ordeal. If I'm ever in Europe on a train I'll be sure to sit next to the prettiest girl and ask her to disembark with me in some romantic European city for a night.