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Julie Delpy is a lauded French actress who has also become a songwriter.
This excerpt ends a few seconds from the end of the film "Before Sunset" that Delpy and Ethan Hawke did with director Richard Linklater.
The backstory: French Celine, Delpy's character, had fallen in love with American Jesse, Hawke's character, during a day they spent together in Vienna as young 20 year olds. This is what's shown in the film "Before Sunrise". Just as they parted to return to their home countries, they arranged to meet again in 6 months. "Before Sunrise" ends there.
As it happens, the remeet didn't happen.
Late in an afternoon in Paris years later as "Before Sunset" begins, Celine introduces herself again to Jesse at a book reading for a novel he wrote that fictionally recounts his day with Celine. They walk about Paris, catching up with one another.
Celine sings this song to Jesse just a few minutes before he's supposed to leave for a plane that supposed to take him back to America, and his wife and kid.
What would you do?
I must say Ms Delpy is quite impressive: writing, scripting, directing and editing on her own her first film for which she also composed the music... Impressive like the thunder but I'm afraid like a storm she leaves me nonplussed.