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6	'''The ''Before'' trilogy''' is a series of three American romance films directed by Creator/RichardLinklater, starring Creator/EthanHawke and Creator/JulieDelpy. Set and filmed in 9-year intervals, the films chronicle the relationship between Jesse and Céline at three periods of their lives.
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9	* ''Film/BeforeSunrise'' (1995)
10	* ''Film/BeforeSunset'' (2004)
11	* ''Film/BeforeMidnight'' (2013)
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14	There were discussions of a fourth film, but it did not come to fruition in 2022. Delpy said in an interview, "We -- all three of us -- agreed that we couldn’t come up with something good for a fourth one."
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17	!!All three films contain examples of the following:
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19	* AmbiguousEnding: No film provides a definitive answer on where Jesse's and Céline's relationship will go.
20	* ExtremelyShortTimespan: All of them take place in under a day.
21	* ForeverFling: Jesse and Céline's relationship hinges entirely on having known each other for a single day.
22	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All films in the trilogy are titled ''Before [Time of Day]''.
23	* MaybeEverAfter: All three films end on a hopeful note about Jesse and Céline's relationship, but major obstacles exist.
24	* NoAntagonist: Except for the pressure of how little time they have in the first two movies. [[spoiler: They do argue and antagonize each other heavily in the third, but still love each other.]]
25	* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: The flow of the dialogue is very naturalistic, as Jesse and Céline often talk over each other, interrupt themselves to say something else, there's a lot of "um"s and "eh"s and similar sounds, and you could make a drinking game out of how often they say "y'know".
26	* SeinfeldianConversation: The focus of the movies. The romance between Jesse and Céline is developed through their rambling conversations about stuff. The trolley scene in ''Before Sunrise'' is a particularly good example, as the two of them talk about things that bug them, their first sexual encounters, and reincarnation (among other things) all in the space of five minutes and [[TheOner one shot]].
27	* SpeechCentricWork: All three films are very conversation-centric.
28	* WalkAndTalk: Featured in all three films, though in different amounts.

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