美国青年杰西（伊桑·霍克 Ethan Hawke 饰）在火车上偶遇了法国女学生塞琳娜（朱莉·德尔佩 Julie Delpy 饰），两人在火车上交谈甚欢。当火车到达维也纳时，杰西盛情邀请塞琳娜一起在维也纳游览一番，即使杰西翌日便要坐飞机离开。与杰西一见钟情的塞琳娜接受了杰西的邀请。 　　他们一边游览城市，一边谈论着彼此的过去 ，彼此对生活的感想，两人了解越加深刻。他们非常珍惜这美妙的晚上，这对恋人一起经历了很多浪漫的经历因为他们约定在半年后再见，而此次约会将会在日出之间结束……

导演: 理查德·林克莱特 编剧: 理查德·林克莱特 / 金·克里桑 主演: 伊桑·霍克 / 朱莉·德尔佩 / 安德莉亚·埃克特 / 汉诺·波西尔 / Karl Bruckschwaiger / Tex Rubinowitz / 埃尔尼·曼戈尔德 / Dominik Castell / Haymon Maria Buttinger / Harald Waiglein / 汉斯·魏因加特纳 / Peter Ily Huemer / Hubert Fabian Kulterer / 约翰·斯洛斯 / Christian Ankowitsch / 亚当·戈德堡 / Paul Poet 类型: 剧情 / 爱情 制片国家/地区: 美国 / 奥地利 / 瑞士 语言: 英语 / 德语 / 法语 上映日期: 1995-01-27(美国) 片长: 101分钟 又名: 情留半天(港) / 爱在黎明破晓时(台) / 日出之前

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(German)

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(German continues)

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(both arguing)

(door opens)

(door closes)

Do you have any ideawhat they were arguing about?

D-Do you speak English?

(French accent) Yeah. No, I'm sorry.My German is not very good.Have you heard that as couples get older,they lose their ability to hear each other?

No.

Well, supposedly, men lose their abilityto hear higher-pitched sounds.

And women eventuallylose hearing on the low end.

- I guess they sort of nullify each other.- I guess.

Nature's way of allowing couples to growold together without killing each other.

What are you reading?

Ah, yeah.

- How about you?- Um...

- Mmm. (chuckles)- Hmm.

(man, woman speaking German)

Look, I was thinking about goingto the lounge car sometime soon.

- Would you like to come with me?- Yeah.

Okay.So how do you speak such good English?

I went to schoolfor a summer in Los Angeles.

- Yeah?- It's fine here?

Yeah, this is good.

Then I spent some time in London.

Uh, well...

How do you speak such good English?

Me? I'm American.

- You're American?- Yeah.

- Are you sure?- Yeah.

(laughing) No, I'm joking.

I knew you were American. And of course,you don't speak any other language, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it, I get it.

So I'm the crude, dumb, vulgar American

who doesn't speak any other languages,who has no culture, right?

But I tried.

I took French for four yearsin high school.

When I first got to Paris,I stood in line at the Metro station,

I was practicing -Une billet, s'il vous pláît.

- Une billet, s'il vous pláît.- Un billet

Un, whatever - Un - Un -

Un billet, s'il vous pláitUn billet, s'il vous pláit

And I get up there and I look at this womanand my mind goes completely blank.

And I start saying, "Ah, listen, I needa ticket to get to, um -"' You know.

So, anyway. Um -

So where are you headed?

Well, back to Paris.My classes start next week.

- You're still in school? Where do you go?- Yeah. La Sorbonne, you know?

Sure.

- Are you coming from Budapest?- Yeah, I was visiting my grandmother.

Ah. How is she?

(laughing) She - She's okay.

- She's all right?- She's fine, yeah.

- How about you? Where are you going?- I'm going to Vienna.

- Vienna? What's there?- I have no idea. I'm flying out of there tomorrow.

- Ah. You're on holiday?- Uh...

- Uh, I don't really know what I'm on.- Okay.

I'm just traveling around. I've been ridingthe trains the past two, three weeks.

Mm-hmm. You were visiting friendsor just on your own?

- Yeah. I had a friend in Madrid, but, um -- Madrid? That's nice.

Yeah, I got one of thoseEurail passes, is what I did.

That's great.

So, has this trip around Europebeen good for you?

Yeah, sure.Yeah, it's been, um - It sucked.

- You know?- What?

-(laughing) No, it's - It isn't --(laughing)

It's had its, um - Well, I'll tell you.

Sitting, you know, for weeks on end,looking out the window

has actually been kinda great.

What do you mean?

Well, uh, you know, for inst -

You have ideasthat you ordinarily wouldn't have.

- What kind of ideas?- You wanna hear one?

- Yeah, tell me.- All right.

- Uh, I have this idea, okay?- Mm-hmm.

For a television show. Some friends of mineare these cable access producers.

Do you know what that is, cable acc...

Anybody can produce a show real cheap,and they have to put it on. Right?

I have this idea for this show that would last24 hours a day, for a year straight, right?

What you do is you get 365 people

from cities all over the world

to do these 24-hour documents of real time,

capturing life as it's lived.

You know, it would startwith a guy waking up in the morning

and, uh, you know, taking a long shower,

um, eating a little breakfast,making a little coffee,

you know, and, uh, reading the paper.

Wait, wait, all those mundane, boring things

everybody has to doevery day of their fucking life?

I was gonna say"the poetry of day-to-day life."

But you say it the way you say it,I'll say it the way I say it.

- Who's gonna want to watch this?- But think about it like this -

Why is it that a dogsleeping in the sun is so beautiful?

You know? It is. It's beautiful.

But a guy standing at a bank machine,trying to take some money out,

looks like a complete moron.

So it's like a National Geographic program,but on people.

- Yeah.- Hmm.

- What do you think?- I can - I can see it -

Like 24 boring hours. Sorry.

And, like, a three-minute sex scenewhere he falls asleep right after, no?

Yeah! You know -

-I mean, that would be a great episode.- Yeah.

- People would talk about that episode.-(laughing)

You and your friendscould do one in Paris if you wanted to.

Oh, sure.

The key - The thing that kindahaunts me is, uh - is the distribution.

Getting these tapes from town to town,city to city, so that it would play continuously.

'Cause it'd have to play all the timeor else it just wouldn't work.

Thank you.

Thanks.

You know what?They're not service-oriented.

(chuckles)

Just an observation about Europe.

My parents have never really spokenof the possibility of my falling in love

or getting married or having children.

Even as a little girl,

they wanted me to think as a future careeras a, you know, interior designer

or lawyer or something like that.

I'd say to my Dad, "I want to be a writer,"and he'd say, "Journalist."

I'd say I wanted to have a refuge for stray catsand he'd say, "Veterinarian."

I'd say I wanted to be an actressand he'd say, "TV newscaster."

It was this constant conversionof my fanciful ambition

into these practical,moneymaking ventures.

Mmm.

I always had a pretty goodbullshit detector when I was a kid.

I always knew when they werelying to me, you know?

By the time I was in high school,

I was dead set on listening to whateverybody thought I should be doing with my life

and just kinda. . . doing the opposite.

Nobody was ever mean about it.

It's just I could never get very excitedabout other people's ambitions for my life.

Hmm. But you know what?

If your parents never reallyfully contradict you about anything

-and are basically nice and supportive -- Right.

It makes it even harderto officially complain.

You know, even when they're wrong.

It's this passive-aggressive shit.You know what I mean? It's...

I hate it.

- I really hate it.-(chuckling)

Well, you know, despite all that kindof bullshit that comes along with it,

I remember childhood as this...

you know, this magical time.

I do.

I remember when, uh, my motherfirst told me about death.

My great-grandmother had just died,

and my whole familyhad just visited them in Florida.

I was about three,three and a half years old.

Anyway, I was in the backyard, playing,

and my sister had just taught me

how to take the garden hoseand do it in such a way that,

uh, it sprayed into the sunand it would make a rainbow.

Right?

So I was doing that,

and through the mist,I could see my grandmother.

You know? And she wasjust standing there, smiling at me.

And, uh, I held it there for a long time

and I looked at her,and then finally I-l let go of the nozzle.

You know? And then I dropped the hose.

And she disappeared.

So I run back insideand I tell my parents.

And they, uh, sit me downand give me this big rap

on how, when people die, you neversee them again and how I'd imagined it.

But I knew what I'd seen.

I was just glad that I saw it.I've never seen anything like that since.

But I don't know.

It just kinda let me knowhow ambiguous everything was.

You know? Even death.

You're really lucky you canhave this attitude toward death.

I think I'm afraid of death24 hours a day.

I swear.

That's why I'm in a train right now.I could have flown to Paris, but I'm too scared.

- Oh, come on.- I can't help it. I can't help it.