Before Sunset is a 2004 American romantic drama film directed by Richard Linklater, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, from a story by Linklater and Kim Krizan. It is the first film by Warner Independent Pictures. The sequel to Before Sunrise (1995) and the second installment in the Before trilogy, Before Sunset follows Jesse (Hawke) and Céline (Delpy) as they reunite nine years later in Paris.

Plot

Nine years after meeting Céline in Vienna, Jesse has written a bestselling novel; This Time, based on their time together. During a book tour in Europe, he does a promotional talk about it at Shakespeare and Company in Paris, where three journalists interview him: one is convinced the novel's characters meet again, another that they do not, and a third who wants them to, but is doubtful that will occur. Céline pops up as Jesse is finishing.