Before Midnight offers a long-awaited update on the lives of Céline and Jesse, the couple who met on a train to Vienna in the 90s, then came together again in Paris the 2000s after Jesse wrote a book about their brief encounter. The second film, Before Sunset, ended ambiguously, with the possibility that Jesse might abandon his family in the Us and stay in Paris with Céline, a woman he’d never been able to forget since that one night nearly ten years before. Before Midnight confirms that Jesse did take that gigantic step, and presents the consequences.
The first two films in the Before saga developed a cult following for their witty and flirtatious repartee. The films were unabashedly talky, but the dialogue was so well written that the audience didn’t lose interest for a moment. The Parisian Céline came across as marginally superior to Jesse who, for all his literary aspirations,...
The first two films in the Before saga developed a cult following for their witty and flirtatious repartee. The films were unabashedly talky, but the dialogue was so well written that the audience didn’t lose interest for a moment. The Parisian Céline came across as marginally superior to Jesse who, for all his literary aspirations,...
- 7/11/2013
- by Alison Frank
- The Moving Arts Journal
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