Emptying the Mind Before Sunrise

In which the author waffles on about a movie and about the quest for contentment

I watched Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset again a couple of nights ago. Those movies always leave me suspended in that beauty space, letting out tired, placid sighs of ecstasy.

For those of you who haven’t seen them, they are works of glorious simplicity. It’s a trilogy: Before Sunsrise/Sunset/Midnight about two lovers, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (…