Editing Before Sunset (section)

==Production==
After the filming of ''Before Sunrise'', Linklater, Krizan,<ref name="youtube"/> Hawke, and Delpy discussed making a sequel. Linklater considered a version to be filmed in four locations and with a much larger budget. When his proposal did not secure funding, he scaled back the concept of the movie.<ref name="Filmmaker">{{cite news |url=http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/issues/spring2004/features/paris_day.php |title=Paris by Day |newspaper=[[Filmmaker (magazine)|FilmMaker]] |issue=Spring 2004 |first=Matthew |last=Ross |access-date=July 5, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818122156/http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/issues/spring2004/features/paris_day.php |archive-date=August 18, 2012}}</ref> In a 2010 interview, Hawke said that the four had worked on several potential scripts over the years. As time passed and they did not secure funding, they adapted elements of the earlier scripts for ''Before Sunrise'' in their final draft of ''Before Sunset.''<ref name="Weintraub 2010">{{cite web |url=https://collider.com/ethan-hawke-on-a-3rd-before-sunrise-before-sunset-movie/13503 |title=Ethan Hawke on a 3rd BEFORE SUNRISE/BEFORE SUNSET Movie |website=[[Collider (website)|Collider]] |first=Steve "Frosty" |last=Weintraub |date=January 4, 2010 |access-date=July 1, 2012 |archive-date=June 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616062509/http://collider.com/ethan-hawke-on-a-3rd-before-sunrise-before-sunset-movie/13503 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Linklater described the process of completing the final version of the film as:

{{blockquote|We sat in a room and worked together in about a two- or three-day period, worked out a very detailed outline of the whole film in this sort of real-time environment. And then, over the next year or so, we just started e-mailing each other and faxing. I was sort of a conduit – they would send me monologues and dialogues and scenes and ideas, and I was editing, compiling and writing. And that's how we came up with a script.<ref name="Filmmaker" />}}

Hawke said, "It's not like anybody was begging us to make a second film. We obviously did it because we wanted to."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1241288,00.html|title=Forget me not|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|first=Geoffrey|last=Macnab|date=October 8, 2005|access-date=August 10, 2007|location=London}}</ref>

The movie was filmed entirely on location in Paris. It opens inside the [[Shakespeare and Company (bookstore)|Shakespeare and Company]] bookstore on the [[Rive Gauche (Paris)|Left Bank]]. Other locations include their walking through the [[Le Marais|Marais]] district of the [[4th arrondissement of Paris|4th arrondissement]], Le Pure Café in the [[11th arrondissement of Paris|11th arrondissement]], the [[Promenade Plantée]] park in the [[12th arrondissement of Paris|12th arrondissement]], on board a ''[[bateau mouche]]'' from Quai de la Tournelle to Quai Henri IV, the interior of a taxi, and finally "Céline's apartment." Described in the film as located at 10 rue des Petites-Écuries, it was filmed in Cour de l'Étoile d'Or off rue du Faubourg St-Antoine.

The movie was filmed in 15 days, on a budget of about US$2–2.7 million.<ref name="Filmmaker" /><ref name="Marshall">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3620967/Love-that-goes-with-the-flow.html |title=Love that goes with the flow |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |last=Marshall |first=Lee |date=July 19, 2004 |access-date=August 11, 2007 |location=London}}</ref> The film is noted for its use of the [[Steadicam]] for tracking shots and its use of [[long take]]s; the longest of the Steadicam takes lasts about 11 minutes.<ref name="Marshall"/> As [[2003 European heat wave|the summer was one of the hottest on record]], the cast and crew suffered along with the city residents, as temperatures exceeded 100 degrees F (38&nbsp;°C) for most of the production.

The film is notable for essentially taking place in real time, i.e. the time elapsed in the story is the run time of the film. In the fast-changing temperate Paris climate, this created challenges for the cinematographer [[Lee Daniel]] to match the color and intensity of the skies and ambient light from scene to scene. The scenes were mostly shot in sequence, as they were still developing the screenplay. Producer Anne Walker-McBay worked with less time and less money than she had on ''Before Sunrise'', but still brought the film in on time and on budget. The sequel was released nine years after ''Before Sunrise'', the same amount of time that has lapsed in the plot since the events of the first film.

The film was released in the wake of Hawke's divorce from [[Uma Thurman]]. Some commentators drew parallels between Hawke's personal life and the character of Jesse in the film.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/oct/08/features.fiction|title=Another sunrise|newspaper=The Guardian|first=Dan|last=Halpern|date=October 8, 2005|access-date=December 28, 2009|location=London}}</ref> Additional comment has noted that both Hawke and Delpy incorporated elements of their own lives into the screenplay.<ref name="Marshall" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3620385/Keeping-the-dream-alive.html|title=Keeping the dream alive|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|first=S.F.|last=Said|date=July 9, 2004|access-date=August 11, 2007|location=London}}</ref> Delpy wrote two of the songs featured in the film, and a third by her was included in the closing credits and movie [[soundtrack]].