The Before Trilogy
Three snapshots of the same relationship, nine years apart each time. Love at the beginning is terrifying and electric and fleeting. Love in the middle is complicated and loaded with everything you didn't say. Love later is hard and unglamorous and a choice you make out loud. This trilogy will wreck you in a different way each time. Not so fun fact: Before Sunrise was inspired by a real night Linklater spent with a woman named Amy Lehrhaupt in Philadelphia in 1989. He made the film partly hoping she'd see it and find him. She never showed up at a screening. Years later, while working on Before Sunset — where Jesse writes a book hoping Céline will find him — a friend of hers contacted Linklater to tell him she had died in a motorcycle accident in 1994, weeks before the first film came out. She never knew the movie existed. Before Midnight is dedicated to her.
3 films
Two strangers meet on a train, get off in Vienna, and spend one night walking and talking before going their separate ways forever. It sounds simple. It is not simple. You will feel it for days.
Official synopsis
An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.
