Watch Before Midnight (2013)
- MOVIE page: Before Midnight (2013)
- Rate: 8.4/10 total 4,814 votes
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 109 min
- Filming Location: Kardamili, Greece
- Gross: $3,054,968 (USA) (14 June 2013)
- Director: Richard Linklater
- Stars: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick | See full cast and crew
- Original Music By: Graham Reynolds (music composed by)
- Sound Mix: Dolby Digital | Datasat | SDDS
- Plot Keyword: Two Word Title | Sequel | Third Part
- Richard Linklater (written by) &
- Julie Delpy (written by) &
- Ethan Hawke (written by)
- Richard Linklater (characters) &
- Kim Krizan (characters)
Before Midnight (2013) Synopsis :
Nine years after the conclusion of Before Sunset, Jesse and Celine live in Paris as a couple, parents to twin girls conceived when they got together. Jesse is also struggling to maintain his relationship with his teenage son Hank, who lives in Chicago with Jesses (now) ex-wife and who, after spending the summer with Jesse and Celine on a Greek island, is being dropped off at the airport to fly home. Jesse has continued to find success as a novelist, while Celine is at a career crossroads, considering a job in government........Plot: 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. | »
Story: 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.
Produced By:
- Lelia Andronikou known as associate producer
- Liz Glotzer known as executive producer
- Kostas Kefalas known as line producer
- Christos V. Konstantakopoulos known as producer
- Richard Linklater known as producer
- Vincent Palmo Jr. known as co-producer
- Jacob Pechenik known as executive producer
- Martin Shafer known as executive producer
- John Sloss known as executive producer
- Athina Rachel Tsangari known as co-producer
- Sara Woodhatch known as producer
- Ethan Hawke known as Jesse
- Julie Delpy known as Celine
- Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick known as Hank
- Jennifer Prior known as Ella
- Charlotte Prior known as Nina
- Xenia Kalogeropoulou known as Natalia
- Walter Lassally known as Patrick
- Ariane Labed known as Anna
- Yiannis Papadopoulos known as Achilleas
- Athina Rachel Tsangari known as Ariadni
- Panos Koronis known as Stefanos
- Enrico Focardi known as Child
- Manolis Goussias known as Child
- Anouk Servera known as Child
- Yota Argyropoulou known as Hotel Clerk
- Serafeim Radis known as Hotel Clerk
- Tety Kalafati known as Air Stewardess (uncredited)
Production Companies:
- Sony Pictures Classics (as A Sony Pictures Classics Release) (A Richard Linklater Film)
- Venture Forth (in association with)
- Castle Rock Entertainment (in association with)
- Detour Filmproduction (as A Detour Filmrproduction)
- Faliro House Productions (presents) (as Faliro House)
MPAA: Rated R for sexual content/nudity and language
Before Midnight (2013) Review by flydocfly from Saint Paul, MN
I just saw this amazing movie at its Sundance premiere. It's wonderfulon so many levels I don't know where to start. The performances arefantastic. If Julie Delpy doesn't get an Oscar nomination it would be ashame (the only stupider thing the Academy could do is have 10 bestpicture nominations.) Ethan Hawke's performance is brilliant in its ownway, however, it's a less showy part and I'm not certain it'll get therecognition it deserves.
The writing is astounding. Sharp, intelligent, biting, humorous, withstaggering subtext, but most importantly--it feels real. If thescreenplay doesn't get an Oscar nomination it would be a shame (theonly thing stupider the Academy could do is have 15 best picturenominations.)
Rick Linklater is now officially the Jedi master of indie filmmaking(Yoda Soderbergh actually said he's giving up filmmaking.) SLACKERS wasonly 22 years ago, and Linklater has matured into one of the mostoriginal filmic storytellers in the history of the medium. 95% of themovie is two-shots of people talking (the other 5% is people talking ata dinner table and cut aways to the gorgeous Greek landscape.) I don'tknow any other living filmmaker who could pull this off. There's aone-take during a car drive that lasts probably ten minutes (before abrief cut away), however, it goes on for probably another ten minutes(and Linklater said he could have kept the whole take, but needed toshow ruins along the country side and cut away for script purposes, notperformance.) There's a 30 minute scene of the two actors in a hotelroom and I didn't even notice it (by that time I was so invested in thecharacters and their actions and emotions I wasn't even aware of time,it wasn't until the post screening Q&A that Linklater mentioned theactual time of the scene.)
All three, Linklater, Delpy, and Hawke have matured into their rolls(writing, directing, acting) so easily that it's all just great fun forthem and the audience. This is a must see for many reasons (includingthe history of film--there's only one other modern trilogy where thefinal film is the best--LOTR, and their food budget was probably morethan the total cost of BEFORE MIDNIGHT.)
i could go on gushing about this movie ad nauseum, however I'll finishby saying that BEFORE MIDNIGHT is what indie film making (and theSundance Film Festival) is all about--truly original, creative, unique,interesting characters and their stories, told outside the Hollywoodsystem, by people passionate about their craft (and in this case at thetop of their craft).
Before Midnight (2013) Review by Clayton Davis (Claytondavis@awardscircuit.com) from New Jersey
Before Midnight is a different type of animal this time around. Ididn't expect the team could top an already beautiful story but whatthey achieve in the newest installment is the most accurate andauthentic portrayals of love since Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine ofthe Spotless Mind (2004). The film is an absolute marvel, showcasingthe very best dialogue and capturing the sheer essence of actingbrilliance from stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Director RichardLinklater has also created the crowning work of his directorial career,showing incredible restraint and focus on two characters that stillfeel just as new and fresh as the day we met them. The film opens witha near fifteen minute take that gets its hook into you and never letsup. It's a cinematic sensation.
Midnight takes place nine years after the events of Sunset. Jesse andCéline are still together and have managed to have twin girls, Nina andElla, and are living in Europe. The film takes place at the tail end ofa six-week vacation in Greece where Jesse has just dropped off histhirteen-year-old son Hank, from his previous marriage, at the airportfor his return back to Chicago. Realizing that he's missing theformative years of Hank's teenage life, Jesse and Céline explore theoption of possibly making a move to America, leaving opportunities anda life in Europe behind.
This film is easily the best film of the franchise so far. Packing anemotional and euphoric punch like third-installments like Toy Story 3(2010) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), filmsthat have a close-nit relation to their predecessors but saving all themasterful speeches and epiphanies for the viewer to indulge in theirfinales. Obviously there's no big fantasy battle or a near deathexperience in an incinerator for the meaning of life to be physicallyexplained but in the power of words, and words alone, Before Midnightmanages to become the poster child for screen writing and brilliantstorytelling for years to come. The film doesn't take any cheap shotswith every scene constructed from real emotion and feeling incrediblyauthentic and genuine. There are long takes for the viewer to bepresent whether it's in an airport conversation between Jesse and Hankor at a lunch with in the beautiful valleys of Greece or even in ahotel room where a man and a woman share intimacy like older loverstypically do.
Ethan Hawke is an actor that never quite caught onto the awards circuitfor some odd reason. Nominated for his performance alongside DenzelWashington in Training Day (2001), Hawke has shown tremendous rangethroughout his career including missed opportunities for recognition inSidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007). As Jesse thistime around, Hawke uses every ounce of magnetism, charisma, and actingability to bring himself to the levels of legendary actors like DanielDay-Lewis and Marlon Brando. He becomes a man all too familiar to themale viewer and ignites the film into a spectacular frenzy of passion.Hawke isn't afraid to show the inner turmoil of Jesse as the growingcancer of guilt has come to the surface. He works moment after momentin expressing the bewildering beauty of love at the expense of one'sown values and sacrifice. He's almost the distant, and utterly toneddown, cousin of Freddie Quell from Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master(2012), a man so complex but inserted with terrific character beats andan actor willing to commit entirely to the craft to portray himflawlessly. Hawke surpasses not only his past features but the verybeing of himself as an actor. It's his finest turn yet.
Julie Delpy is as imaginative and magnetic as ever. She's a wonderfulpresence, often very skillful example of acting on the finest level.She executes the pure feelings of uncertainty in conjuncture with thescript which is a clear and marvelous character study on love. She'swildly immersed into Céline, accomplishing not only a somewhat free-spirited damaged woman but a sex appeal that triggers any person'sromantic desires. She's an effortless existence in the film, whichmakes Céline not only explicitly real, but tenderly and mysteriouslyloving for the viewer. It's a performance that defines her abilities asan actress and one that will be remembered fifty years from now as weall think back on the amazement of Julie Delpy.
The film is breathtakingly accurate and precise in capturing the loveand relationship of couples, it will and should be studied by filmschools and writers for years to come. Linklater bares his soul, frameafter frame, showing confidence of his own idiosyncratic vision of thisstory and being as accessible to even the youngest of people. This isLinklater's most personal tribute to the scope of cinema and will behis defining moment on the silver screen. The film is a must-see and isthe first masterpiece that 2013 has to offer. Before Midnight is aninstant Oscar-contender and a triumph in filmmaking. It's the go-tofilm of the Tribeca Film Festival and the best picture of the year sofar.
Before Midnight (2013) Review by Sant Jordi from Los Angeles
I just saw Richard Linklater's Before Midnight his newest and thirdfilm about Jesse and Celine the couple who meet as young adults inBefore Sunrise and re-meet as adults in Before Sunset (one of my fivefavorite films).
This is simply brilliant film making: funny, raw, emotionally honestand complicated. The couple (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy who bothco-wrote with Linklater) are now in their 40s and face some very realchallenges to their menage. I started laughing and crying within about3 minutes and both emotions kept up until the very end. Everyone satthrough the credits so they could wipe their faces clean. Brilliantacting . . .
This film gives one hope for the state of American film making andreminds you that Linklater is one of our most underrated auteurs. Isincerely hope he continues and I live long enough to see the couplewell into their senior years.
Even if you have never seen the first two movies, do not miss this one.
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