In one volume, the screenplays to two contemporary classics, directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, about the immediate and life-altering attraction between two strangers. On a train from Budapest to Vienna, Jesse, a young American student, at the end of a romance and his European trip, meets Celine, a young French woman. They are immediately attracted. Despite knowing this may be the only time they will see each other, in the next few hours in the city of Vienna, they share everything and promise to meet again. Nearly a decade later, Jesse, now a novelist on a publicity tour, sees Celine in a bookstore in Paris. Again their time is short, and they spend it reestablishing the connection they experienced on their first meeting. Romantic, poignant, understated, and often profound, these two screenplays are sure to become classics in their own right.

リチャード・リンクレイターによるこの脚本集は、対話が物語の鼓動となる稀有な文学的達成です。二人が交わす言葉が街を哲学的な思索の場へ変え、一瞬の邂逅を一生の記憶へと昇華させます。若さの焦燥と再会の切実さを瑞々しく描いた本作は、まさに言葉で編まれた知的冒険と言えるでしょう。 映像版が放つ圧倒的なリアリティは、このテキストを読むことでより鮮明な輪郭を結びます。銀幕を流れる時間の密度を文字で追体験する贅沢は格別です。映像が情緒を、テキストが深層心理を補完し合うことで、二人が歩んだ歳月の尊さをより深く噛み締めることができるはずです。