Synopsis
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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Cast
- Ethan HawkeJesse Wallace
- Julie DelpyCéline
- Seamus Davey-FitzpatrickHank
- Jennifer PriorElla
- Charlotte PriorNina
- Xenia KalogeropoulouNatalia
- Walter LassallyPatrick
- Ariane LabedAnna
- Yiannis PapadopoulosAchilleas
- Athina Rachel TsangariAriadni
Recommendations
- 100
IndieWire
Before Midnight is the rare cinematic achievement that implicates alert viewers in its mission to understand the mysteries of intimate connections. - 100
The Hollywood Reporter
The work Richard Linklater and company started in 1995's Before Sunrise retains a clarity of spirit undimmed by 18 years. - 100
Variety
Honoring all that was memorable about its forebears while taking the story to new depths of catharsis, Before Midnight stands as a unique and uniquely satisfying entry in what has shaped up to be an outstanding screen trilogy - 100
Film.com
Before Midnight manages to be an emotionally astute and tremendously enjoyable conclusion to this rather improbable trilogy. - 100
Time Out
That’s the subtle level this movie operates on, and by the time it arrives at its powerhouse climax, a ruinous argument in a hotel room where all lingering doubts are finally and furiously outed, there’s nowhere left for them to ramble. They’re pinned down and have to improvise, but this glorious movie has infinite space to roam. - 100
Village Voice
Before Midnight—visually stunning, in a late-summer way—is more vital and cutting than another recent marriage picture, Michael Haneke's old-folks-together death march Amour; it has none of Amour's tasteful restraint, and in the end, it says more about the nature of long-term love. - 100
Entertainment Weekly
Before Midnight confounds expectations in powerful and even haunting ways. It's not just darker than the previous two films. It's bigger, deeper, and more searching. It follows the characters through a tale of embattled love that extends far beyond them. - 88
Slant Magazine
These films have always been about the power of words, their ability to bridge gulfs of time and space, the thrill of ideas and opinions taking definitive shape.
