Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy d/ Richard Linklater
The first was fun...two articulate young people coming together while frabbing around Vienna. The second was close to a romantic masterpiece...the same two meeting nine years later, not really by chance, and walking around Paris gradually re-connecting and eventually snapping together like lego pieces at the enormously satisfying conclusion.
This one continues their story nine years later still. We watch them talk...between themselves and with others for a while. Then they start one of their trademark walks into town and we begin to unravel the true complexity of a modern love relationship. This extended two-way conversation is the best treatment of adult love I've seen. It seamlessly morphs from pure love and flirtation to irritation to suspicion to sexual tension to anger to despair to separation to resignation to reconciliation to, perhaps, hope.
It is a brilliant tour de force. The three players deserve great accolades for constructing and putting this together. This series makes other hollywood films about relationships look like simple-minded cartoons. Every teen in the western world should watch all three for an advance peek at what's ahead.
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