Before Midnight

Director: Richard Linklater

2013 / 109min / 35mm

The third and to-date final installment in Linklater’s Jesse and Celine series catches up with the couple (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, who co-wrote the screenplay with Linklater) at the end of a summer in Greece. The setting is idyllic, but the central couple—now in their forties, their connection fraying under the tensions of long-term romantic commitment—are far from blissful as, over the course of a single evening of reminiscence, wisecracking, and subtle jabs, buried resentments rise to the surface, putting the two on the precipice of a final break. “Intimate and intelligent… acted with charm and lack of ego… the story of people who have all the cares of middle age but somehow retain the idealism and curiosity of youth.” —The Guardian

Part of Summer at Sea