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Before Sunset

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Rating: ★★★★★ Category: Movies Genre: Romance “What if you had a second chance with the one that got away?” Now this tagline will really catch your attention, as it did mine (thankfully). And the thanks goes to my two daughters who bought the DVDs, and who probably, much like their father, are hopelessly romantic (though they keep a stern or nonchalant façade as if to say, romance and us are like Teflon to fried eggs). But let me go back to that movie with the above-quoted tagline, before this becomes a review of my daughters’ love-life/lives (of which I am totally and absolutely uninformed about). Before Sunset is definitely a story of romance. No further qualifications necessary. The story reprises two characters: an American named Jesse (played by Ethan Hawke, who I first saw in the movie “Dead Poet Society”), and a French woman named Celine (played by Julie Delpy, who in real-life is a French-American actress who lived in New York for sometime), in a previous movie called...