Before Sunrise
by Richard Linklater & Kim Krizan
by Richard Linklater & Kim Krizan
Train
The Eurail rolls along. Inside, passengers sleep, read, and stare out the windows. A few walk up and down the aisles. Celine, a young woman in her mid-twenties, is curled up in her seat reading Georges Bataill’s Story of the Eye. Strikingly attractive, she plays
it down by wearing no makeup, a loose-fitting vintage dress, and flat shoes. She continues reading while taking an occasional bite of a chocolate bar. Sitting four rows back and on the other side of the aisle, Jesse, also mid-twenties, is engrossed in Klaus
Kinski’s memoir, All I Need Is Love. Casually good looking but a little scruffy, he dresses in the jeans and T-shirt mode. Suddenly a couple, two fortyish types who have been arguing semiquietly in the seat behind Celine, start yelling at each other in German.
The wife takes a swipe at the newspaper the husband has been screening him behind.
