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In "Before Sunrise," the charmingly diminutive movie that Richard Linklater made in 1995, Jesse (Ethan Hawke), a footloose young American travelling through Europe, meets a student from Paris, Celine (Julie Delpy), on a train, and persuades her to stop off with him in Vienna. They spend the night walking around the city and making love. As they part in the morning, they know that their night together had an element of the improbable about it--they almost see themselves as characters in a story--and they decide to keep the fable going. Instead of exchanging telephone numbers, they agree to meet in Vienna exactly six months later. Linklater's new movie, "Before Sunset," brings these two risk-takers back together. Nine years have gone by. It turns out that one showed up for the date and the other did not, but they're both angry (though for different reasons). Jesse is now a nervously self-conscious novelist, whose first book--it is, of course, a fictional account of his night with Celine--has just been published in France. At an interview session at the Shakespeare & Co. bookstore, near Notre-Dame, he notices his old friend standing in a corner. Celine has become an earnest public-health activist, who often travels to India and other countries but still lives in Paris. After exchanging skittish hellos, they decide to kill some time together before Jesse has to head for the airport to go home. Like the earlier movie, "Before...
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