Reviewing Movies

This is the first in a trilogy of movies Ethan Hawke has made with his favourite director Richard Linklater. In it Hawke sits in the car of an fast electric train while the scenery of Europe whizzes by in the window and romances Julie Delphy. The fast-talking motor-mouth Hawke rattles on like a late-night infomercial host while they tour the sights of Vienna and he finds romantic locals to seduce her. Critics raved and your interest will vary according to your tolerance of the verbal diarrhea. His consort for this romp does her share of talking as well.

Delphy gets more opportunity to talk than I remembered at least in this outing. The train they come in on has overhead electric wires. The one shown leaving the station does not, just saying. The same sequence is used at the end of the movie and again, not the same train. The music store they enter, Alt und Neu, is vinyl records.

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