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One of the Most Exciting Things That's Ever Happened to Me Is to Meet Somebody"
33 year-old successful book author Jesse Wallace (Ethan Hawke) made a 5:30 pm Shakespeare & Company in-store Parisian appearance (his final stop) for a reading, book signing, and Q&A session. His just-published book This Time, was a fictionalized account of his night nine years earlier with French girl Celine (Julie Delpy) from the previous film Before Sunrise (1995).
A journalist asked him: "Do you consider the book to be autobiographical?", and he evasively answered the question:
Well, I mean, isn't everything autobiographical? I mean, we all see the world through our own tiny keyhole, right? I mean, I always think of Thomas Wolfe. You know, have you ever seen that little one-page 'Note to Reader' in the front of Look Homeward, Angel?...Anyway, he says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life - that you can't avoid that. So when I look at my own life, you know, I have to admit, right, that I've-I've never been around a bunch of guns or violence, you know, not really. No political intrigue or a helicopter crash, right?
But my life, from my own point of view, has been full of drama, right? And uh, so I thought, if I could write a book that, that could capture what it's like to, to really meet somebody, [The film flashed back to scenes from Before Sunrise (1995)], I mean, one of the most exciting things that's ever happened to me is to meet somebody, to make that connection. And if I could make that valuable, you know, to capture that, that would be the attempt, or... Did I answer your question?
"But What Does It Mean, The Right Man?"
During a car ride, Celine (Julie Delpy) explained to Jesse (Ethan Hawke) how miserable her love life had become:
I was fine, until I read your f--king book! It stirred s--t up, you know? It reminded me how genuinely romantic I was, how I had so much hope in things, and now it's like, I don't believe in anything that relates to love. I don't feel things for people anymore. In a way, I put all my romanticism into that one night, and I was never able to feel all this again. Like, somehow this night took things away from me and I expressed them to you, and you took them with you! It made me feel cold, like if love wasn't for me!...
You know what? Reality and love are almost contradictory for me. It's funny. Every single of my ex’s, they're now married! Men go out with me, we break up, and then they get married! And later they call me to thank me for teaching them what love is, and, and that I taught them to care and respect women!...
You know, I want to kill them!! Why didn't they ask me to marry them? I would have said "No," but at least they could have asked!! But it's my fault, I know it's my fault, because I never felt it was the right man. Never! But what does it mean the right man? The love of your life? The concept is absurd. The idea that we can only be complete with another person is EVIL!! Right??!!...
You know, I guess I've been heart-broken too many times. And then I recovered. So now, you know, from the starts I make no effort because I know it’s not going to work out, I know it’s not going to work out.