Before Sunrise and Before Sunset

In one volume, the screenplays for two contemporary classics, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, about the immediate and life-altering connection between two strangers.

On a train from Budapest to Vienna, Jesse, a young American student, meets Celine, a young French woman. Jesse is at the end of both a romance and his European trip, and the two are immediately drawn to each other. Despite knowing this may be the only time they will see each other, they share everything over the course of a few hours in Vienna and promise to meet again.

Nearly a decade later, Jesse, now a novelist on a book tour, sees Celine in a bookstore in Paris. Again their time is short, and they spend it quickly reestablishing the connection they experienced on their first meeting and lamenting the way life has unfolded. Romantic, poignant, understated, and often profound, these two screenplays are already classics.