Jessie and Céline’s eyes met on a train heading to Budapest; it was 1995 and they both got off in front of Celine’s actual destination to spend a night wandering the streets of Vienna. Richard Linklaters Before Sunrise is not only a romantic highlight of nineties cinema, it also made Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy the ultimate idolized indie film stars. Their complicated screen romance lasted another twenty years, but in real life Hawke and Delpy were not a couple; neither did he and Winona Ryder, alongside whom he starred in another 90s cult film: Reality Bites.
