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Before Sunrise

Richard Linklater · 1995 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

An American backpacker and a French student fall into conversation on a train out of Budapest, and he talks her into getting off with him at Vienna, where neither has money for a room and his flight leaves at dawn. They walk the city until morning, arguing about parents, death, reincarnation and whether either of them is being honest. Almost the entire work is two people talking as they move.

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