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Before Sunset

Shakespeare and Company

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Before Sunset filmed at Shakespeare and Company, Paris. The opening scene: the bookshop reading where they meet again after nine years.

Shakespeare and Company, Paris
Alexandre Duret-Lutz from Paris, France · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Where to go

48.852575, 2.347112

Probable Named in published production coverage; the coordinate is the place itself, checked against a gazetteer.

Good to know

Title
Before Sunset (2004)
On screen
Paris
In real life
Shakespeare and Company, Paris
Can you visit?
Open to the public, free
Time to allow
30 minutes
Confidence
Probable

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Shakespeare and Company today

Photography of the place as it is now — production stills from the publications that covered the shoot, and freely-licensed photographs. Each links to its source.

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Questions

Where exactly did Before Sunset film at Shakespeare and Company?
At 48.852575, 2.347112 in Paris. Named in published production coverage; the coordinate is the place itself, checked against a gazetteer.
Can you visit Shakespeare and Company?
Open to the public, free. Allow about 30 minutes.
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