re-watched the Cannes cut for the 20th anniversary of its premiere there. still feels like a work of mad genius, and the satire of ineffectual liberalism feels more accurate by the day. earnest and silly and committed to the point of madness, but in a way that feels more comforting than terrifying (B+)
not only one of the best movies about How We Live Now, but also somehow one of the great Vertigo riffs? spent the last hour trying not to cry too loudly in the theatre 💀 my third watch, and it's felt like a slightly different movie every time (even despite the capital-letter bigness and the ambition of literally every gesture) (A-)
The only sequel I've ever seen that not only betters the original, but also makes the original better in retrospect. Linklater brings his usual excellent sense of time and place to Before Sunset, and the second encounter between Celine and Jesse is even more poignant than the first.
Hawke is just as excellent here as he is in the first: he's fantastic with the dialogue, but my favourite moment of his performance is on the boat, with Hawke watching Delpy…
