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Before Midnight
The life of a married couple, Jessi and Celin, who have met by accident in the train, going to Vienna, where they fall in love with each other and get married, has been changed completely, when they go to Greece to spend the summer with their friends, where they struggle against saving their marriage after the strong debate they have.
11 September 1936, Athens, Greece
1984, Athens, Greece
21 December 1969, Paris, France
2 April 1966, Athens, Greece
April 28, 2015
The previous two pictures were preoccupied with romantic ideals, but this is the real love story. So funny and so wise, it's about how happily ever after is harder than it looks.June 07, 2013
Before Midnight is fascinating to watch, and so long as Celine and Jesse are communicating, there's still hope.June 13, 2013
Though "Before Midnight" is often uncomfortable to watch, it's never less than mesmerizing - and ultimately, a joy to walk with this prickly but fascinating couple again.May 25, 2015
The chemistry is so good it is pratically tactile and their conversations, in the natural way of long-term couples, are free-ranging and show how at times of high emotion, arguments and resentment can resurface suddenly to powerful effect.July 20, 2015
Everything about Before Midnight rings wonderfully and achingly true.October 08, 2015
The Greek ruins, once the perfect backdrop for ancient tragedies, now complement the Bergman-esque domestic discord and disillusionment that are about to unfurl.June 18, 2013
Hawke and Delpy remain as charming as ever, and their combined goofiness is more endearing than annoying.June 22, 2015
Hawke and Delpy, who co-wrote the screenplay with Linklater, make this oscillation between badinage and feistiness, cosiness and irritability, look effortless.June 14, 2013
Love is messy here, life cannot be controlled, satisfaction is far from guaranteed. Romance is rocky at best. But romance still is.June 13, 2013
"Before Midnight" is heartbreaking, but not because of Jesse and Celine. It's the filmmakers' passions that seem to have cooled.January 06, 2014
This is a universal X-ray of bourgeois love, one that in a few decades will get around to something like Amour.June 21, 2016
'Before Midnight' has all the best qualities of 'Sunrise' and 'Sunset' (a love of conversational dialogue, long takes that value the joy of performance and interaction, gorgeous European locations), yet it is a grander and more complicated achievement.