Before Midnight
American romantic drama film and the sequel to Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004). We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
Director:
Richard Linklater
Cast:
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
Screenplay:
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Screening Date:
May 23, 2013
| Excellent | Very Good | Good | Fair | Poor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.9% | 26.3% | 26.3% | 18.4% | 21.1% |
Good to remember relationships need work.
A lot of talk, too little action, and I don’t mean sex.
Someone once said that the movies were like real life with boring parts left out. This movie was like real life with an extra dose of the boring parts added in. Spending 2 hours with these two people was worse than having a root canal.
Thought provoking exploration of a relationship – conflicts and attractions.
A bit of reality TV. A take-off on Ingmar Bergman, but no way as poignant. And she is crazy!
Good talk, bad talk just too much talk!
Movies are made up of dialogue and images, and here the dialogue is primary and prime. This is wonderful talk where the relationships and challenges of this period in their life is explored and volleyed, set against classic Greece countryside. The dinner sequence alone is worth the price of admission.
The tiresome trilogy talkative.
From a neurotic, anxiety ridden, extremely wacky wife - Ethan Hawke is a miracle!
Talky - probably better as a play.
It would work well as a short story, as a movie it is tedious. Too much talk.
Great individual chunks of dialogue, but 108 minutes…I’d take this as 6 short stories.
It was better than the other two movies they wrote.
After seeing BEFORE MIDNIGHT my first instinct was to hurry and view the first two films in the series. It was so real and so accurate romantic relationships. I thought someone from the production company had bugged my life! I am truly stunned at the level of engagement this talked-filled movie provides. It is compelling in its honesty and literacy; it’s a big person movie that has so much too offer to younger viewers if they could/would take the opportunity and walk into a theater that is showing it. This is a movie that is so real. It has a lot to teach and serves as a mirror for so many relationships. It is a valuable, precious and important artwork. Bravo - and I got to go now to book my Greek vacation!
I wish I could compare my arguments as well as Jessie, but alas it’s only a movie.
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE inspired? Makes me appreciate that so many men have trouble communicating.
She was neurotic!
Too much talking, unrealistic. There was no interaction with the 2 daughters at all. Why didn’t he go to the plane to talk to his son? They did not seem like a couple who had been together for 9 years.
