SUBMITTED BY Timbo

February 10, 2004 — Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, who starred in "Before Sunrise", explained at the Berlin Film Festival why they returned for a sequel.

Hawke, Delpy and Linklater -- who share screenwriting credits -- all said as the sequel premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival that they'd been looking for a way to continue the story.

"I felt something was missing until I did this film," Delpy said. "Somehow I felt I needed to say more."

The sequel picks up nine years later in Paris, where Celine lives and Jesse is giving a reading of the book he wrote about their one evening together. This time under the time constraints of a departing plane, the two once more delve into intimate conversation.

"It has a weird connotation when you say sequel. It usually means, you know, economic interest," Linklater told. "This obviously isn't for that -- we're here for personal reasons."

"There's not many sequels to movies that made less money than ours," Hawke added.

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