In 1995, Love Before Dawn won the Best Director Award at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival
In 2004, Love at Sunset and Dusk, which was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival
In 2013, Love Before Midnight Descends was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Award at the 86th Academy Awards.
The series spans 18 years. The three movies are linked together to form a chart of the trajectory of life from falling in love - getting married - having a baby - raising a child, and it's very patient to see the two lead actors change from youth to middle age!
This movie is a great way to see the two lead actors change from youth to middle age.
This first look at the first: "Love at Dawn"
Director: Richard Linklater (Richard Linklater), born July 30, 1960 in Houston, Texas, the United States, the United States film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, photography, editing, graduated from Sam Houston State University.
Actor: Ethan Hawke (Ethan Hawke), born November 6, 1970 in Austin, Texas, U.S., American actor, director, screenwriter and author. In addition to the Love in ...... trilogy, there are also "Dead Poets Society" and "Modie".
Actress: Julie Delpy (Julie Delpy), born December 21, 1969 in Paris, France, actress, screenwriter, director, composer, producer.? A graduate of New York University's School of Acting, she not only loves acting, but is also passionate about writing and directing plays. She was honored with an Academy Award in 2005 for writing the screenplay for Before Sunset.
The hero, Jesse, is a young American man of divorced parents, an artsy-fartsy type with a romantic streak. This trip is to visit his girlfriend from Madrid, she actually does not want to see him. So some sad to take the train back to the United States through Vienna.
The heroine, Céline, comes from a middle-class family in France, and is an independent woman who pays attention to her feelings and details, and has her own obsessive, adventurous, career-seeking spirit. She has lived briefly in the United States and the United Kingdom, and is taking advantage of her college vacation to visit her grandmother in Budapest before returning to Paris to study.
Jesse meets Céline on the train and they have a great conversation. They meet up and get off together for a night in Vienna***.
What happens when a single man and a beautiful woman get together? Everything can be imagined, and everything will happen as it should.
Early the next morning, Jesse is on a plane and the date will end before dawn. The two are reluctant to part, promising to meet again in six months at Vienna Station. To preserve the novelty, they don't leave any contact information with each other.
The film runs about 14 hours, and shows in super-condensed form how two strangers go from meeting, to knowing, to falling in love.
As opposed to many films, which use images to create a visual impact, this movie is almost entirely about two people having a conversation that holds up the entire plot.
The dialog is in the form of a question-and-answer game, where the two of them exchange ideas and even playfully simulate "calling" their friends, facing each other honestly in a "question-and-answer" game.
The content of the conversations: seemingly wild, involving the family of origin, childhood experiences, love, marriage, gender relations, career, life, religion, death, technology ....... Of course there are also daily trivialities and strange ideas. The hero and heroine are wonderfully articulate, and the content is full of ideas and thought provoking. Each seemingly random line of dialog is quite incisive and worth plucking out and savoring, and that's what we may be exploring for the rest of our lives but can't make sense of.
The movie is set in Vienna, the city of music.
The movie is set in Vienna, the city of music.
There are both local cityscapes: city buildings, old streets, public transportation, video stores, restaurants, Ferris wheels, bars, churches. Public **** cemeteries, etc.
There is also the artistic flavor of a music capital. For example: the love of amateur performances of passers-by, improvisational poets on the banks of the Danube, the prophet on the square palm reading, enthusiastic gypsy dance, playing the beautiful song of the record store, mysterious and wonderful divination witch, understanding sponsorship of wine bartender and so on. Vienna romantic atmosphere, so that the two first encounter of exotic young people, feelings gradually brewing escalation, gradually romantic, ambiguous, passionate.
At the end of the movie, after dawn breaks, the two are going their separate ways. Because of the fear of leaving contact information after the interaction destroyed the initial heart, so they agreed to meet in Vienna six months later in the same station platform, no phone, no address, but " I have you, you have me ", only wish that this pure can be eternal.
At this point, the movie screen shows the city where the two had walked, just empty, as if nothing had happened, just a dream, while the loss and thoughts lingered in the hearts of the two ......
1. The reason for the movie hero to ask the heroine to get off is quite attractive. Would you be attracted to get off the train with Jesse?
Jesse: "Imagine 10 or 20 years from now, after you're married and your marriage loses the vigor it once had, you think about all the men you've ever met in your life, and I'm one of them. I'm just a loser like him (husband) and at that time you'll feel like you made the right choice and be happy about it".
The girl is eventually convinced to join the guy for a night of adventurous wandering in Vienna.
2. The two meet a fortune-telling witch, whose prophecies are both novel and mysterious. How do you feel about divination? Does this episode have a special meaning when it appears in the movie?
The witch says to Celine "You're an adventurer, an explorer, you're interested in the power of women, and the latent power and creativity of women, and that's the kind of woman you're becoming." The witch looked at Jesse, "He (Jesse) is learning." Celine liked the witch's comment and willingly paid.
The Diviner says something meaningful before she leaves, "Both of you are stars, stars exploded billions of years ago to form everything in this world, everything we know is stardust, and you are stardust."
Jessie resists this, believing that it's just a means of making a living as a witch, and mentions that if Selena had just been replaced by an old man, the divination wouldn't have resulted in an exciting future, but rather in day-to-day blandness.
3. Is life a trick?
The two talk about marriage and love, and Selena asks Jesse, "Have you ever seen a truly happy couple and couple?"
Jesse replied in the affirmative: "I've seen them, but I think they're cheating on each other."
Selena agrees, and with a helpless smile says, "People can live their lives as a con, my grandmother and my grandfather lived their whole lives until they were old, and my grandmother told me that she spent her whole life in love with the other person she loved."
Selena found her grandmother's life sad, but at the same time appreciated the fact that her grandmother was able to have such emotions in her life, to which Jesse added that it was the right thing for her grandmother not to fall in love with that person, because it probably would have only been a disappointment for her grandmother if she had actually had one: "People always have romanticized everything, even though it's not not practical."
4. Dare to love after being hurt?
Jesse, who has just been hurt by love, is willing to believe in love even if his heart resists it, otherwise he wouldn't have bravely and abruptly invited Celine to get off the train with him.
Jesse said, "Love, is two people who are afraid of loneliness shelter."
Jesse then added: "Sometimes I want to be a good husband, a good father, but sometimes it feels silly to do so, as if it will ruin my life. It's not out of fear of commitment, fear that I won't be able to take care of people, love people, I know I can do it, but if I can't be honest with myself, even though I'm good at something and specialize in something, I'd rather die because I can't go against my heart."
From Jesse's quote, it's easy to see that he sometimes longs for marital love and sometimes resists it.
Many people on the key to the marriage love contradictions, eager to have, and afraid of harm, or because they do not want to be harmed, encountered love is not willing to approach and pay, so that thought will not taste the sweetness of love, and do not have to bear the harm of love. What do you think about this?
The movie "Love Before Dawn" is not so rich in characters, and the plot is not so ups and downs, and the whole movie is about Jesse and Selena talking non-stop. That's why some people call it a "talky" movie.
But what it presents is more of the most beautiful and genuine look of love in the beginning. "love poems written by wandering poets with "milkshakes" are like telling their stories, and the slight drunkenness on the grass ......
If only love at first sight, a brief encounter, if not enough to make the whole story after so long can still be missed and praised. The movie is a step by step interpretation of the process of thinking together, this process is not limited to the length of time, but to the depth of communication to decide. When two people are together, there is only each other in their hearts and eyes, and there is no end to what they can say. Love is not about being speechless, but perhaps it is about chatter. Love is two souls that fit together, have endless words, although they do not know what to say.
And this is the purest and most beautiful form of love.
If life is only like the first time, what is the matter of the autumn wind sad painting fan?
The movie just like this into the heart of everyone, unforgettable.
In 2013, the final installment of the trilogy, "Love Before Midnight", the next nine years are coming, 2022, the director will bring surprises?
Attached: background information
1. The titles of the two books they read on the train
Jessie is holding All I need is love
Céline is Histoire de l'oeil (Story of the eye) -
2. The milkshake poem of a wandering poet on the Danube
This is the last of the trilogy. Delusion Angel
-By David Jewell
Daydream delusion. A daydream delusion
Limousine Eyelash blinks its dense lashes
Oh, baby with your pretty face Oh, baby with your pretty face
Drop a tear in my wineglass
Look at those big eyes and stare into your pure eyes
See what you mean to me. You are the meaning of my life
Sweet cakes and milkshakes mingle in the sweetness of the cake
I am a delusioned angel
I am a fantasy parade. I want you to know what I think. Don't want you to guess anymore. You have no idea where I came from. We have no idea where we're going.
Launched in life.
Like branches in the river. Flowing downstream
Caught in the current. I'll carry you. You'll carry me. You'll carry me. Don't you know me by now. Don't you know me by now
3. A clip of the poem read by Jesse, the hero
After the dawn, before they are about to be separated, the two do their best to carve each other's appearance into their minds, to reflect it in their memories, even though the sadness of the separation makes them realize that they are far from being as sprightly as they had imagined, and that Selena is lying on his lap, with Jesse holding her. lap, Jesse holding Selena, unknowingly reciting a poem by Auden:
"The bells in the city ring at the same time, don't be deceived by time, you can't conquer time, in the midst of worries and concerns, the days go by in obscurity, time will write a rhapsody, today or tomorrow. "
This poem is precisely an excerpt from the masterpiece of the English poet W.H. Auden, "Walking in the Night".
W.H. Auden, a recognized modern poet, was born in England in 1907 and became an American citizen in 1946. Auden's writing, especially his poetic technique, was heavily influenced by the major schools of Scandinavian poetry, and is recognized as the most important English-language poet since Eliot.
4. About Quakers
In the movie, Jesse tells Celine about Quaker weddings: two people kneel face to face and look at each other until God's inductions come to someone, otherwise no one speaks, and the two people look at each other in silence like this, and an hour later they are married.
The Quakers, also known as the Quakers and the Society of Friends, were founded by George Fox in 1648.
The word Quaker means trembler, and it is said that when the Quakers were founded, some people trembled because they attended meetings, while others say they were famous because George Fox warned the judges of the Inquisition that they would "tremble" before God when faced with the judgment of the Inquisition.
The Quakers were opposed to external authority and cumbersome formalities. Weddings and funerals were simple, with no clergy or furnishings, and believers gathered together to meditate and listen to the Holy Spirit's guidance, with any believer speaking or praying if he or she was inspired.
When you think of Quakers, you think of Quaker Oats, which was a global phenomenon. 1901, Henry D. Seymour and William D. Heston of the United States were the first people in the United States to have a Quaker Oats. In 1901, Henry D. Seymour and William Heston founded the Quaker Flour Company. The company's first registered trademark featured an image of a man dressed as a Quaker. The mark was used for the company's breakfast cereal and remains the symbol of the Quaker Oats Company today. The company adopted the Quaker logo because of the dedication and faith of the Quakers.