Céline met Jesse on a train to Vienna, and they spent an evening and a night in the city together, before both had to catch different trains to different destinations in their very separate lives. A train ride, the start of one of the most intriguing movie screen love stories of all time. In my opinion. Before sunrise, followed by Before sundown, set in Paris – and apparently there’s a new one now, Before midnight, older, children and fighting in Greece. I read an interview with Julie Delpy, who plays Céline, in a magazine while waiting for the food to arrive in a pub in Stromness, Orkney. I have to see it when I get back home.
There’s no potential handsome young American in this train carrige. And I am not an artistic, beautiful Frenchwoman. I won’t be able to reenact Before sunrise. Probably for the best, though. Sleeping in a bed in a Couchsurfing host’s guest room feels so much more like what I need after the weekend I’ve had in Munich, than having sex on the ground in a dark Vienna park. Just sayin’.
Katja Malmborg 