The Divine Miss Delpy

摘要

Somebody needs to tell Julie Delpy not to be so existential if she wants to make it big in Hollywood. "At some point," she's saying, "you realize the idea of completely merging with someone in a relationship may be impossible. Is there anything worse than being next to a lover and being lonely?" Delpy's talking both about herself―she's 34, single, childless―and her character Celine, whom she first played in the modest 1995 film "Before Sunrise." In case you missed it―millions did?Celine meets Jesse (Ethan Hawke) on a train. After 24 hours of frolicking and philosophizing (this is a European train) he goes back to the United States and she to the Sorbonne, deciding not to exchange numbers or addresses. They agree to meet at the same spot in exactly six months. Romantics in the audience know they will; cynics know they won't.