Before Sunrise

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Paul and Amy hop the train to Vienna to revisit Before Sunrise, Richard Linklater’s ode to chance encounters and conversations that stretch until dawn. They unpack the film’s naturalistic dialogue, roaming long takes, and the electric chemistry between Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, to explore how Jesse and Céline’s fleeting connection feels both impossibly romantic and deeply real. Go to https://surfshark.com/unspooled or use code UNSPOOLED at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! You can join the Unspooled conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Follow Paul and Amy on Letterboxd for more of their movie hot takes! https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/ https://letterboxd.com/theamynicholson/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is out now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Check out more of Paul's writing on his Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Episodic Art by Kim Troxall: https://www.unspooledart.com/ Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Being an adult sucks.
0:02.0	Adults, they have to work all day.
0:05.0	When adults get male, it's always bills and bills suck.
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0:31.1	The year is 1995.
0:33.9	Have you ever heard that as couples get older, they lose their ability to hear each other?
0:38.3	No.
0:39.3	Well, supposedly, men lose their ability to hear higher pitch sounds, and women eventually lose hearing on the low end.
0:47.3	I guess they sort of nullify each other or something.
0:49.3	I guess. Nature's way of allowing couples to grow old together without killing each other.
0:56.4	The movie Before Sunrise.
1:09.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to unspooled.
1:16.3	Yes, welcome to unspooled. This is a podcast about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, mustsies, and in case you missed them.
1:29.9	We have covered the AFI top 100, and now we are checking off movies from three major lists. The Letterbox top 250 films with the most fans, the IMDB top 250, and the New York Times, 1,000 essential films.
1:35.9	And we will also be chasing our own curiosity, too. And Amy, love is in the air. And this is our Valentine's Day episode, which brings us to Before Sunrise. I mean, I cannot wait to talk about
1:42.6	this movie. I am Paul Shear. I'm an actor, a writer,
1:45.6	and director, and I have to say a person who has changed their opinion completely about Ethan
1:52.1	Hawk from when this movie came out originally in 95 to 2025. Good. Catch up. Catch up. Catch up.
2:00.3	Because you know that I am from the dead poets generation
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