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Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world

Richard Linklater · 1995 · overland

Richard Linklater's 1995 romance. A young American and a young Frenchwoman meet on a train across Europe and impulsively get off together in Vienna, spending one long night walking and talking through the city, falling in love against the certainty that they will part at dawn.

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    Vienna

    Jesse talks Celine off the train, and the two strangers set out to spend a single night together in Vienna.

  2. 2
    The Prater

    On the great Ferris wheel, high above the city, they share a first kiss.

  3. 3
    The Old Town

    Record shops, cafes, a cemetery, a palm reader, a poet, the whole night unspooling in talk.

  4. 4
    The Danube Canal

    Dawn comes too soon, and they part at the station, promising to meet again in six months.

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