Richard Linklater
9 titles · american independent
Jesse and Céline meet on a train, spend one night walking around Vienna, and agree to meet again. Before Sunrise was 1995; the two actors come back in 2004 and again in 2013, married with children by the last one and arguing in a Greek kitchen. Boyhood runs the same wager over twelve years with a child. Talk is what happens in these films. People walk and argue, and a relationship gets made or lost inside one conversation.
Signature
- Real time as a production method: films shot years apart with the same cast.
- Long walking conversations carrying everything a plot would.
- Loose, hangout structure with no engine under it.
- Rotoscoped animation used for the films about consciousness.
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Lineage
Earlier films these works draw on, and the films they went on to shape — each link checked to name a film that actually came first.