Before Midnight

2013

Action / Drama / Romance

142
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 98% · 206 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 82% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.9/10 10 171396 171.4K

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Plot summary

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.


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October 04, 2013 at 11:41 PM

Top cast

Ethan Hawke as Jesse
Julie Delpy as Celine
Spyro Curtis as Stelios
Ariane Labed as Anna
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by larrys3 5 / 10

Liked It the Least of the Three

I liked the first two films of these interconnected movies "Before Sunrise"(1995) and "Before Sunset"(2004). I've always liked Ethan Hawke's acting and I thought the scripts were full of life and fresh dialog. I felt that way for maybe 1/2 of this latest film and then, for me, it just deteriorated into one long argument between the two protagonists, often accompanied by vicious barbs and personal verbal attacks. I thought for a moment I was back watching "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", from decades before.

It was not entertaining for me to watch Jesse(Hawke) and Celine(Julie Delpy) try to win this argument by throwing out all the stereotypes, generalizations, and platitudes that you might find in "Men Are From Mars-Women Are From Venus". They've been together now for many years, and the parents of twin girls Ella and Nina. Jesse is divorced and his son Henry is just leaving Jesse to head back to the States where he lives with his mother. They've all been vacationing in beautiful Greece for the summer.

As mentioned, why ruin all the positives of the first two films and half of this one with all this mean spiritedness?

Reviewed by grantss 6 / 10

Mixed feelings

Mixed feelings about this movie, the third of Richard Linklater's trilogy.

The trilogy started in 1995 with Before Sunrise, continued in 2004 with Before Sunset and now, another nine years later, we have Before Midnight. The movies follow the lives and love of Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy), with the span in years between movies reflecting the spans in their lives. We are getting snapshots of their lives, at nine-year intervals.

Before Sunrise was OK, but not great. Really a dressed-up romantic drama, just with a more realistic and original plot and more subtle direction than your average romance movie.

Before Sunset was the pick of the bunch. Rather than just a snapshot, it relates, through their dialogue, all the happenings in the last nine years of their lives, and demonstrates how much each of them were key in the other's life. It had more of a complete story and more character development.

Before Midnight now picks up with them together, with their two kids, holidaying in Greece. Like the first two, it is very dialogue-intensive. Like the first two (especially Before Sunrise) the dialogue can be a big negative at times: pretentious, navel- gazing stuff.

However, on the plus side, we get to see how relationships end up. Romantic dramas tend to end with the couple walking off into the sunset, very much in love, blissfully happy and without a care in the world. They never cover all the unromantic, even irritating, stuff that comes after it: kids, domestic life, mundanity. This does.

On the downside, there is a reason this is never covered: it's boring, even annoying. Who wants to see a bitter, very protracted argument between husband and wife? Or people discussing domestic stuff?

Thus, a two-edged sword.

So, kudos to Richard Linklater for the concept of these movies and for not shying away from the less glamorous domestic years in a relationship. However, the domestic years aren't very entertaining to watch...

Reviewed by kosmasp 8 / 10

Is this the end?

Though it was never planned as such, we do get another installment on the "Before ..." series. But fans of the original movies are excited and rightfully so. Whether you watched this at a Festival (played in Berlin and other cities) or regularly, the crowd response to it was overwhelmingly good. There are reviewers here who write this might be the best of the series. Whatever the case is, the quality of all three movies is very high, which is very rare.

You don't have to have seen the other movies, but it does make sense to get a feeling of our two lead characters. Of course they are meeting new people here (this time the location is Greece), but Problems and Passion are still there. The situations and the dialog feel more than real and while it might be too "talky" for some, others will rejoice and revel in it. Hopefully you know beforehand to which group you belong

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