Before Sunrise
Dir. Richard Linklater (1995, IMDb #186)
There’s beige people in this? Oh thank God. It was touch and go there for a minute, what with co-leads Ethan Hawke (Jesse) being white, and Adolescent Crush #1 Julie Delpy (Céline) being white, and these two photogenic white people engaging in a peripatetic romance along the sure-to-be-very-white streets of Vienna.
You’re sure there’s beige people? Good, good, good. We didn’t know what we’d do with ourselves if we couldn’t re-watch this film for stupid woke reasons.
So who was it? In the beigeground? Doing the needful? Bilge Jeschim (Belly Dancer) of Middle Eastern ethnicity and, possibly – it’s fucking hard to verify this shit, folks – Kurti (Percussionist) of indeterminate beigeness.
SCORE: CREAMY
Cast
Film Details
Budget2.5m USD | Gross6m USD |
IMDb User Score8.1 | Metacritic77% |
Synopsis
A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.
Major Wins and Nominations
1 wins and an additional 7 nominations (approximate).






