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Sunday, July 21, 2013

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Released: 1995
Romance
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
Running Time: 105 long boring minutes
Rated: R

The breakdown:  Two young people spend a day and night in Vienna talking after meeting on a train.

So SO BORING.
I saw this got 100% on rottentomatoes.com and I had accidentally seen the sequel to this movie first, Before Sunset where they meet up again, and I didn't really like that one either.  I thought maybe I would like the second one more if I had seen the 1st one but it looks like that's not the case.
These two strangers meet on a train on the way to their separate locations when they strike up a conversation and hit it off.  When the guy is supposed to get off he asks the woman to come with him and she agrees.  They end up walking around Vienna all afternoon and night until they stop and have sex in the grass.  I guess they are supposed to have some connection, but I don't see it.
I was bored within the first 20 minutes of the film and I saw no instant connection that the actors should have had for this movie to work.  I don't know what the critics were watching, but it couldn't have been this movie.  It's not a romance, it's not a drama, it's not a character study.  It's just a bad idea.

0 out of 5 for giving me nothing but a wasted block of time.

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