Before Midnight

22 April 2019

Before Midnight 2013

• Director: Richard Linklater
• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Ethan Hawke – Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Cymbeline, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Tape, Hamlet, Snow Falling on Cedars, Gattaca, Reality Bites, Waterland, Dead Poets Society
• Julie Delpy – Two Days in New York, Two Days in Paris, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Broken Flowers, The Red Film, The White Film
• Why? The other two
• Seen: 21 April 2019

       They’re together now, Jesse (Hawk) and Celine (Delpy). They have twin daughters and are on holiday in Greece. Jesse misses his fourteen-year-old son who lives in America.

       Still talking, but now Jesse talks about his books with three men. He and Celine have friends and now they’re all talking around a dinner table. No more romance, just cynical gender bickering. Then Jesse and Celine wander off on their own and continue talking. Bickering. Even in bed with Celine half-naked they bicker. Shortened love scene becomes hate scene.

       These two have never been likeable. Now they’re almost unbearable. No wonder they’ve ended up hating each other.

       It deals with real relationship problems and domestic life. It’s really depressing so I should like it better than the others which were too soapy. But then this gets soapy too.

       They’re awfully good actors though.

3* of 5