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Jesse (Ethan Hawke), a broke American, and Céline (Julie Delpy), a French student heading home to Paris, end up next to each other on a train out of Budapest. They get talking, and when it pulls into Vienna, where he has a flight home the next morning, he talks her into getting off with him. That’s the whole plot: two strangers walking around a city all night, talking about death, sex, their parents and what they want, knowing it ends at sunrise. Richard Linklater won Best Director at Berlin for “Before Sunrise” (1995), turning a film that’s almost nothing but conversation into one of the most beloved romances ever made. It started with something real - in 1989, Linklater met a woman in Philadelphia and walked the city with her until morning. Hawke and Delpy went on to co-write two sequels, nine years apart, and the trilogy became one of cinema’s great long-distance love stories. Start here. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle called it a lovely and wistful celebration of youth, time and moments of connection, while Anthony Lane of The New Yorker said its charm never feels forced - it steals up and wins you over. Wednesday, November 4 | 8:00PM TicTic, Phnom Penh Free entry & popcorn - arrive early for sofa, bed, or beanbag seating