Director: Richard Linklater
Note: Very Minor Spoilers
It can be difficult to make a film about memory. We've seen lots of 'great' films about it - Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Inception - but it's not easy to capture the feeling of a person being in one place and time while thinking (and feeling) about another. The characters in Before Sunset are in two places - in the film's present, and nine years ago, during the events of Before Sunrise. Other than a brief montage of the earlier film, we don't see images from there - the film brilliantly manages to rely on our memory of the previous movie, and I think it succeeds no matter how much of the original film the viewer actually remembers.
The film also manages to turn on the fact that what we say, how we act, and what we're thinking can be three different things - the tension is created by the fact that one character may or may not betray what they're thinking either by how they act or what they say.
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