Before Sunrise · The Rewatchables ·January 28, 2025 Before Sunrise Jesse in Before Sunrise Award for the Character Who Should Have Smoked but Didn’t Jesse; probably Céline too The panel proposes a new category here. Flex pick · Chris Ryan In the discussion (5) Approx. transcript time · 01:01:37Read transcript Chris explicitly selects the category as his flex after Bill invites him to restore a cut category. — Chris Ryan Chris remembers Jesse as a smoker and argues that Hawke's real-life smoking makes the omission puzzling. — Chris Ryan The 1995 European setting and the smoking poet make the absence of cigarettes especially conspicuous. The lack of smoking now makes the movie feel unexpectedly modern. Julie Delpy is also proposed as someone who would plausibly smoke.
