Ok I really liked it and it was strangely captivating - but it was also really boring. I love when they recite the lines about the annual concert like five times, I felt myself getting so tired, but I couldn’t stop watching. I have never seen something structured this way, I’m hooked! And also wanting it to be over please.
My life is a bit dull right now so maybe that’s why I enjoyed a movie like this.
I wake…
Let me tell you what fascinates most about this one. As much as I loved the present-day segments, I found myself cheering whenever ten year-old Taeko would come back on screen. Man, what is it about that setting that enchants me so much. It’s that plain schoolyard, the young sibling anxiety, everything is so unfair and no one understands you!
I think what I engage with most are the scenes of the girls at school just hanging out and gossiping.…
Henry saw it, and it didn’t matter where he was in his life because he had a revelation anyway. Two young people meet in their final holiday moments and end up spending them together all night in Vienna. Linklater is here to take advantage of those memories you made in your reckless formative years. The warm and witty dialogue between Jessie and Celine is conveyed naturally enough to justify the impulsive behaviours of generations of young folk. We bumble around…
And this time around it has affected me a bit more, because as of late I have been doing a lot of romanticising! Oh no, not this again, what am I doing? Why waste time with such pointless thoughts. Here we have a continuation of Before Sunrise, a film which I have great admiration for but could not personally see myself in. We see Jesse and Celine again as they happen across each other nine years later. Once more, we…
