A Night Felt

Notte Sento, a film by Daniele Napolitano

The rough translation of the phrase "notte sento" is "night felt." (Google helped me with that one, not my 8 or so years of Italian classes...) It features a girl, a boy, a train, and a night gallivanting around a beautiful European city - in this case, Rome. Shot with more than 4500 photographs, this short film really knows how to exhaust the hell out of a DSLR. Man, I don't even know if I've taken 4500 photographs in my lifetime.

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in Before Sunrise

Notte Sento heavily reminds me of another, perhaps more affecting, film: Before Sunrise. Again, a girl, a boy, a train, and a night gallivanting around a beautiful European city - in this case, Vienna. It's directed by Richard Linklater (fun fact: he also directed School of Rock) and centers around a night-long conversation. It doesn't sound all that exciting right now, but I can tell you that this movie (and its 2004 sequel Before Sunset) are the most emotionally devastating films I've seen in a while. And if you suggest Blue Valentine as a choice contender for that title, I'll tell you something: if you see Before Sunset before Blue Valentine, the latter will feel like nothing.

A rather decent movie, but Williams and Gosling have got nothing on Hawke and Delpy