Before Sunset (2004)

Ten years later, a couple who had spent one night together meet again.

This has obvious roots in Love Affair (1939) and its remake An Affair to Remember (1957) (I didn't see the third version which came out in 1994, the same year as Before Sunrise, of which this is the sequel), and of course Casablanca (1942); it is also quite similar to Conte d'hiver (1992) (tr. A Tale of Winter). While those were all good films, Before Sunset is just moronic, and I was going to say it's not even comic, but then there is that one bit about the New York cop who advises the young lady to buy a gun ("This is America, not France.") -- now this is comic -- or offensive, if you are a New York cop and get offended by moronic films. Anyway, after four years this film has already been torn to pieces by people smarter than me, so I won't bother.

Rating: 15