History YMMV / BeforeSunrise

* AwardSnub: ''Before Sunset'' and ''Before Midnight'' earned UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay, but the leads and Creator/RichardLinklater never got nominated for their performances.
* EvenBetterSequel:
** Many critics thought ''Before Sunset'' was superior to the original film and attributed this to how the characters, actors and directors matured over the years, as well as Creator/EthanHawke and Creator/JulieDelpy's contribution to the screenplay (which was nominated for an Oscar).
** The same is being said now about ''Before Midnight''.
* FridgeBrilliance: Of the meta kind. ''Before Sunrise'' and ''Before Sunset'' are rather unconventional in that they don't have much of a plot or structure of any kind. Hell, they barely have a score. ''Before Midnight'', however, is more like a traditional, conventional film - a reflection of Jesse and Celine evolving from lovers into partners, and how theirs has become a conventional adult relationship. This also ties into the third film having more supporting characters than the first two. The only time that Jesse and Celine alone together come in the final act of ''Before Midnight'' whereas it makes up the entirety of the previous two films.
* ValuesDissonance: Celine is an environmentalist, yet she smokes. That may be acceptable in France. In the USA, smoking tobacco is the last thing an environmentalist would be doing.
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* AwardSnub: ''Before Sunset'' and ''Before Midnight'' earned Best Adapted Screenplay nominations, but the leads and director never got nominated for their performances.

** Many critics thought ''Before Sunset'' was superior to the original film and attributed this to how the characters, actors and directors matured over the years, as well as Hawke and Delpy's contribution to the screenplay (which was nominated for an Oscar).

* ValuesDissonance: Celine is an environmentalist, yet she smokes. That may be acceptable in France. In the USA, smoking tobacco is the last thing an environmentalist would be doing.

* FridgeBrilliance: Of the meta kind. ''Before Sunrise'' and ''Before Sunset'' are rather unconventional in that they don't have much of a plot or structure of any kind. Hell, they barely have a score. ''Before Midnight'', however, is more like a traditional, conventional film - a reflection of Jesse and Celine, and how theirs has become a conventional adult relationship.

* RealitySubtext: The first film was born from the night Richard Linklater spent with a woman named Amy in Philadelphia. Unlike Jesse and Celine, they exchanged contact info and tried the long distance relationship, but things fizzled out, so the ending of ''Before Sunrise'' became Linklater's idealised version of events. Linklater admitted later that he hoped Amy would see the film and get in contact, but that never happened. A decade later, that idealised notion became part of ''Before Sunset'', in which Jesse wrote a novel about the events of the previous film and Celine read it and got in contact. It wasn't until 2009 that Linklater learned Amy had passed away fifteen years earlier, and thus never saw the original film.

* SceneryPorn: Especially in Before Midnight. Beautiful Greek houses, nature, and ocean.

* FridgeBrilliance: Of the meta kind. ''Before Sunrise'' and ''Before Sunset'' are rather unconventional in that they don't have much of a plot or structure of any kind. Hell, they barely have a score. ''Before Midnight'', however, is more like a traditional, conventional film - a reflection of Jesse and Celine, and how theirs is more like a conventional adult relationship.

* ValuesDissonance: Celine smokes, yet she is an environmentalist. That may be acceptable in France. In the USA, smoking tobacco is the last thing an environmentalist would be doing.

* RealitySubtext: The first film was born from the night Richard Linklater spent with a woman named Amy in Philadelphia. Unlike Jesse and Celine, they exchanged contact info and tried the long distance relationship, but things fizzled out, so the ending of ''Before Sunrise'' became Linklater's idealised version of events. Linklater admitted later that he hoped Amy would see the film and get in contact, but that never happened. A decade later, that idealised notion became part of ''Before Sunset'', in which Jesse wrote a novel about the events of the previous film and Celine read it and got in contact. It wasn't until 2009 that Linklater learned Amy had passed away fifteen years earlier, and thus never saw the original film.

* EvenBetterSequel: Many critics thought ''Before Sunset'' was superior to the original film and attributed this to how the characters, actors and directors matured over the years, as well as Hawke and Delpy's contribution to the screenplay (which was nominated for an Oscar).

** The same is being said now about ''Before Midnight''.

* AwardSnub: ''Before Sunset'' and ''Before Midnight'' earned a Best Adapted Screenplay nominations, but the leads and director never got nominated for their performances.

** The same is being said now about Before Midnight.

* EvenBetterSequel: YMMV, but many critics thought ''Before Sunset'' was superior to the original film and attributed this to how the characters, actors and directors matured over the years, as well as Hawke and Delpy's contribution to the screenplay (which was nominated for an Oscar).

* EvenBetterSequel: YMMV, but many critics thought ''Before Sunset'' was superior to the original film and attributed this to how the characters, actors and directors matured over the years, as well as Hawke and Delpy's contribution to the screenplay (which was nominated for an Oscar).