How do they memorize all the dialogue in that 13 minute single shot car ride?
I wasn't sure if this would hold up since they are together now. It does, except that dinner scene, which I didn't like at all. I'm not here for other characters. I want the main two characters only. The kids are fine as long as they are mostly asleep.
Before Midnight
Everything's better with maturity.
Rating
4.0 (1)
Release Date
4/5/2013Runtime
109 minsOverview
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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A couple at a crossroads argues and reckons with compromises made over nine years of marriage, excavating old wounds and present resentments with unflinching honesty. It's a film about how love transforms when romance collides with real life.
Mood
MelancholicContemplativeBittersweetWistful
Themes
LoveMemoryFamilyIdentity
Tone
Tender
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
NaturalisticHandheld
Structure
Linear
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