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Before We Had Dating Apps, "Before Sunset" Showed Us What Falling In Love Really Looked Like
“I guess when you’re young, you just believe there’ll be many people with whom you’ll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.” This casually devastating line is spoken by Julie Delpy’s character, Céline, in Richard Linklater’s second installment of the Before trilogy, Before Sunset.
By Jaimee Marshall6 min read
It’s always struck me as intuitively true, and it captures the trilogy’s core thesis about love and connection. The films explore love over time, across two decades, each film’s events separated by nine years in real time and narrative.