Along with starring, Hawke and Delpy additionally co-wrote Linklater’s sequels “Earlier than Sundown” and “Earlier than Midnight,” which got here out in 2004 and 2013. The movies meet up with Jesse and Céline in real-time, with “Sundown” revealing what in the end turned of the pair within the intervening years since “Dawn” and “Midnight” exhibiting what their lives are like of their 40s. It is clear that Hawke and Delpy’s script contributions to those movies had been substantial, presumably permitting them to kind by the emotional baggage they’d collected in their very own lives utilizing the fictional ones of their onscreen counterparts.
Your perspective on every movie can range significantly relying on what number of miles you’ve got obtained underneath your belt. Individuals the identical age as Jesse and Céline in “Dawn” may discover them entrancing, whereas those that are older and/or extra skilled could also be irritated by their naïveté (or maybe merely wistful of it). For those who’ve already dated a real-life Jesse or Céline, you might even discover lots of their conversations to be peppered with crimson flags. Alternatively, you might end up drawn extra to the developed iterations of the characters in “Sundown,” coupled with the movie’s depiction of 30-something malaise and its suggestion that reconnection, whereas unlikely, will not be inconceivable. Or perhaps you will end up most compelled by “Midnight” and its argument that one thing actual, flawed, and presumably unsustainable because it may be, is in the end extra significant than one thing imagined.
There’s knowledge and perception to be garnered from all three of those films, nevertheless, no matter what stage of life you are at or what you’ve got gone by (or are at present going by). So, ought to you end up falling in love with “Earlier than Dawn” after your first viewing and even on a revisit, do not hesitate to seek out out what comes after.