While the experience of this film would be enriched by having seen the preceding film first, it certainly stands satisfactorily alone. I had not seen the prequel to this although my date had and she filled me in on many details. It wasn't until 2010, before Linklater started production on the second sequel, Before Midnight (2013), that a friend of Amy, who knew about their story, contacted Linklater to tell him that Amy had died in a motorcycle accident on May 9, 1994, at the age of 24, a few weeks before he started shooting Before Sunrise (1995). When "Before Sunset" was released, she did not show up either. Like Jesse in "Before Sunset", Linklater was secretly hoping that Amy had heard of the movie, and would show up at the premiere, but she did not. In 1994, Linklater shot Before Sunrise (1995), based on his night with Amy. Though they initially stayed in touch over the telephone, they lost contact eventually. He had once spent a night walking and talking around Philadelphia with a woman called Amy in 1989. Like Before Sunrise (1995), this is based on events in director Richard Linklater's own life. In the movie, Jesse ( Ethan Hawke) confesses to Celine ( Julie Delpy) that he wrote a book about their meeting 9 years before, partially in the hope that she would read it and re-establish contact with him.
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