Wednesday, September 30, 2009
HALF A DAY
Today's Richard Linklater film was
They meet on a train. He is leaving tomorrow on a plane. Get's off in Vienna.
She is heading home for Paris.
They meet, talk and decide to have some more time together. She gets off the train and will return to Paris in the morning.
It is made clear that neither has any money for a hotel. A way of sending a message to one another about expectations. They just want to talk. And talk they do, until sunrise. And we go along with them.
Nighttime Vienna in the background. The city is almost a separate character. There are other people.
Simple, no? No.
Very nice. Very good talk. Very well done.
The structure here is a close cousin of yesterday's Slacker only these are not slackers.
I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5 and look for Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy to get back together in 2005 in Before Sunset (2005).
Only I do not want to wait that long. It is the next film in line. Maybe Saturday.
