Before Trilogy

Me encantó la presentación. El producto llegó en muy buen estado, con las tres películas dentro de una caja, que a su vez venía envuelta con plástico. Tiene un sello de garantía que especifica ser edición especial y con material extra, aunado a los ajustes aprobados por el director. El diseño de la caja y de las portadas de cada película es muy artístico, me gustó mucho!Sin duda una excelente inversión.

My favourite trilogy ever, and that includes the Godfather, Star Wars or Star Trek 2-4 and I very much like those movies. Boyhood did one story over 12 years, but Linklater, Delpy and Hawke have created two characters being revisted 9 years later twice. First meeting on a train and a romantic night in Vienna, then in the sequel remeeting after novelist Jesse (Hawke) writes a novel about the night in Vienna and Celine (Delpy) goes to the Shakespeare Book store where he's doing a book signing, and they spend eighty minutes reconnecting before Jesse is supposed to catch his flight home. The third is (spoiler alert) after they've stayed together in Paris, and the natural issues in a long term relationship. It's primarily dialogue thoughts on love, relationships, death, life in general. Great dialogue, performances and some very funny lines. And the extras in the Criterion Collection are entertaining, informative about Director Linklater and his work, and the film transfers to Blu-Ray, beautiful. I highly recommend this.

I remember seeing Before Sunrise for the first time around 2005. It was a movie you had to pay attention to, or you'd miss a quip here or there. It helped that the actors in the movie were closer in age to my generation. I remember picking up a DVD copy of Before Sunset in 2007 because that's the year my mother passed on. I was also beginning to date a woman who I would go on having a serious relationship with. Maybe it was because my emotions were riding so high with both events that this movie became my favorite between the two.******Spoiler****** When Celine sang that song to Jesse at the close...wow, what an ending!When I heard they were finally working on the third film, I was ecstatic. I also knew this would probably be the last we would see of Jesse and Celine. As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. I eventually found a DVD copy of Before Sunrise, but at this point Blu-rays were the thing. After Before Midnight was released on Blu, I wanted to wait until a trilogy of some sort was released. So I waited, and waited, and even started wondering if it would ever be released. Finally those of us fan boys and girls have our day! What a beautiful set with extras to keep you occupied for hours. As with most in demand Criterion releases, I would snap this one up as soon as you can, because it may disappear into that sunset before you realize.

This might be my favourite trilogy ever made. Richard Linklater has created a masterpiece of cinema that is absorbing in its simplicity. Superb performances by Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke draw the viewer totally into the world of Jesse and Celine.And as a Criterion set, it is even better!

This trilogy of movies are some of the best made ever, let alone of Linklater’s filmography. These films are not much more than simple conversation, yet it’s conversation so engaging and so engrossing that it easily holds your attention for the entire runtime. If you’re at all interested in romance, drama, or film at all, you can’t pass these up. This criterion edition is fantastic too (as always), coming with a book about the films and beautiful mastering and packaging.