Before Sunrise

Linklater’s ongoing, decades-spanning story of a love affair through its many ups and downs begins here, with a chance encounter on a train between Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, the American Jesse and the French Céline, who together will pass a day and night in Vienna full of spirited, sparkling conversation and a slowly dawning attraction, all depicted with an ambling, uninflected naturalism. A wistful, winning, and quietly impassioned portrait of young love as it begins to bloom.