Richard Linklater’s Before films are a special collection of movies that not only takes an unique look at romantic love but reminds us how engaging the fine art of conversation can be in capable hands. Before Sunrise (1995) introduced us to Jesse (Ethan Hawke), a young American tourist on a train to Vienna who meets […]
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Shameless melodrama kills Haven
I think I could make an argument that romantic movies are the hardest sort to make successfully. Tone and sincerity are so important in exercises of this sort and probably the most tenuous elements of these films. One moment that comes off as too sappy or melodramatic and the spell is broken. Thinking back on […]
