Stars: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Prior, Charlotte Prior, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Walter Lassally, Ariane Labed | Written and Directed by Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater’s Before series of films have a unique connection with their fans that most films could only dream about. Some have grown up with the characters of Jesse and Celine since their first romantic connection in Vienna nearly twenty years ago. Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and now Before Midnight are this perpetual reflection of how our perception of life and romanticism shifts as we grow older. Those who have experienced this series of films in real time can relate on a multitude of levels. Those, like yours truly, that are late to the game can still develop an internal connection due to the universality of what is being covered. That’s not to say they are for everyone. They are centered completely on two people...
Richard Linklater’s Before series of films have a unique connection with their fans that most films could only dream about. Some have grown up with the characters of Jesse and Celine since their first romantic connection in Vienna nearly twenty years ago. Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and now Before Midnight are this perpetual reflection of how our perception of life and romanticism shifts as we grow older. Those who have experienced this series of films in real time can relate on a multitude of levels. Those, like yours truly, that are late to the game can still develop an internal connection due to the universality of what is being covered. That’s not to say they are for everyone. They are centered completely on two people...
- 7/24/2013
- by Dan Clark
- Nerdly
Director: Richard Linklater; Screenwriters: Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy; Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Prior, Charlotte Prior; Running time: 109 mins; Certificate: 15
In 2004, Before Sunset offered a glimmer of hope for lovers Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) on the quest for happily ever after. But was it really meant to be? Spoiler alert! The question is answered - though, only in part - in the opening scene of the second scintillating sequel that comes 18 years after Before Sunrise when the couple first met on a train bound for Vienna.
From there, to Paris and now in their early 40s, Jesse and Celine are in sunny Greece where Jesse is trying too hard to be a cool dad. He sees off his son at the airport and obsesses over the bad rap he'll get from the boy's mother at the other end as it quickly becomes...
In 2004, Before Sunset offered a glimmer of hope for lovers Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) on the quest for happily ever after. But was it really meant to be? Spoiler alert! The question is answered - though, only in part - in the opening scene of the second scintillating sequel that comes 18 years after Before Sunrise when the couple first met on a train bound for Vienna.
From there, to Paris and now in their early 40s, Jesse and Celine are in sunny Greece where Jesse is trying too hard to be a cool dad. He sees off his son at the airport and obsesses over the bad rap he'll get from the boy's mother at the other end as it quickly becomes...
- 6/17/2013
- Digital Spy
Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, why the hell do you make such an enchanting on-screen couple?! Here it is almost two decades after Richard Linklater directed Before Sunrise, the first film to introduce our hopeless lovers Jesse and Celine, and almost a full decade after we re-visited Jesse and Celine for a romantic French encounter in Before Sunset, yet Linklater is still finding a market for his latest story about Jesse and Celine – Before Midnight. You don’t see many romantic dramas being franchised these days, but Linklater has found something astonishingly special with his Before franchise.
After all the passion and turmoil has settled from Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, Linklater’s newest film meets Jesse (Hawke) and Celine (Delpy) after spending some nine years together as a couple, raising their two beautiful daughters Ella (Jennifer Prior) and Nina (Charlotte Prior). We first catch up with only Jesse though...
After all the passion and turmoil has settled from Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, Linklater’s newest film meets Jesse (Hawke) and Celine (Delpy) after spending some nine years together as a couple, raising their two beautiful daughters Ella (Jennifer Prior) and Nina (Charlotte Prior). We first catch up with only Jesse though...
- 5/22/2013
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
SXSW 2013 Film Review
complete coverage of the SXSW Film Festival 2013
Before Midnight
Director/Screenwriter: Richard Linklater, Screenwriters: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
We meet Celine and Jesse nine years after their last rendezvous. Almost two decades have passed since their first encounter on a train bound for Vienna, and we now find them in their early forties in Greece. Before the clock strikes midnight, we will again become part of their story.
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Prior, Charlotte Prior
(film synopsis from sxsw.com)
Who’S It For?: Best experienced by those familiar with the characters but newbies should find some enjoyment in the latest entry of Richard Linklater’s “Before” series.
Overall
Before Midnight catches up with two of cinema’s most beloved characters, Celine and Jesse, 18 years after they first met in Vienna. If you’ve seen the previous films, you know that Before Sunset ended on a cliffhanger.
complete coverage of the SXSW Film Festival 2013
Before Midnight
Director/Screenwriter: Richard Linklater, Screenwriters: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
We meet Celine and Jesse nine years after their last rendezvous. Almost two decades have passed since their first encounter on a train bound for Vienna, and we now find them in their early forties in Greece. Before the clock strikes midnight, we will again become part of their story.
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Prior, Charlotte Prior
(film synopsis from sxsw.com)
Who’S It For?: Best experienced by those familiar with the characters but newbies should find some enjoyment in the latest entry of Richard Linklater’s “Before” series.
Overall
Before Midnight catches up with two of cinema’s most beloved characters, Celine and Jesse, 18 years after they first met in Vienna. If you’ve seen the previous films, you know that Before Sunset ended on a cliffhanger.
- 3/12/2013
- by Tyler Mager
- The Scorecard Review
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