Before Midnight

Before Midnight is a 2013 American romantic drama film, the third in a trilogy featuring two characters, following Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004). It was directed by Richard Linklater and stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Co-written by Linklater, Hawke and Delpy, the film picks up the story nine years after the events of Before Sunset; Jesse (Hawke) and Céline (Delpy) spend a summer vacation together in Greece.

Following a limited opening in May, the film was released wide in June 2013 and grossed over $20 million worldwide. As with the previous films, Before Midnight received widespread acclaim and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Some elements were drawn from the screenplay for the first film.



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[hide]  *1 Plot  ==Plot[ edit] == Nine years have passed since Before Sunset. Jesse and Céline have become a couple and parents to twin girls, conceived when they were together in Paris during a brief visit. Jesse struggles to maintain his relationship with his teenage son, Hank, who lives in Chicago with Jesse's ex-wife. After spending the summer with Jesse and Céline on the Greek Peloponnese peninsula, Hank is being dropped off at the airport to fly home. Jesse has continued to find success as a novelist, while Céline is at a career crossroads, considering a job with the French government.
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 Production
 * 4 Release
 * 4.1 Box office
 * 4.2 Critical reception
 * 5 Accolades
 * 5.1 Top ten lists
 * 6 References
 * 7 External links

The couple discuss their concerns about Hank, and then about Céline's choices for her career. Over dinner they talk more about love and life. Friends staying with them pay for a hotel room so they can have a night alone. While walking to the hotel, the couple reminisce about coming together. After reaching the hotel, they have a fierce argument, expressing fears about their present and future together.

Céline leaves their room and sits alone in the hotel's outdoor restaurant. Jesse joins her and suggests how things might change from that night. She says their fantasies will never match the imperfect reality. Jesse proclaims his love, saying he does not know what else she could want. Céline resumes Jesse's joke and the two seem to reconcile. ==Cast[ edit] == ==Production[ edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy had all discussed doing a sequel to Before Sunset (or the third in a trilogy). In November 2011, Hawke said that he, Delpy and Linklater <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">"have been talking a lot in the last six months. All three of us have been having similar feelings, that we're kind of ready to revisit those characters. There's nine years between the first two movies and, if we made the film next summer, it would be nine years again, so we started thinking that would be a good thing to do. So we're going to try and write it this year."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[4] <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[5]
 * Ethan Hawke as Jesse
 * Julie Delpy as Céline
 * Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick as Hank
 * Jennifer Prior as Ella
 * Charlotte Prior as Nina
 * Xenia Kalogeropoulou as Natalia
 * Walter Lassally as Patrick
 * Ariane Labed as Anna
 * Yiannis Papadopoulos as Achilleas
 * Athina Rachel Tsangari as Ariadni
 * Panos Koronis as Stefanos

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">In June 2012, Hawke confirmed that the sequel to Before Sunset would be filmed that summer.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[6]  Soon after, Delpy denied filming would take place that year.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[7]  But by August 2012, numerous reports emerged from Messenia, Greece, that the film was being shot there.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[8]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">The completion of filming the movie, titled Before Midnight, was announced on September 5, 2012.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[9]  Linklater said that, after ten weeks of writing and rehearsing, the film was made in fifteen days for less than $3 million.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-tribune_2-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[2]  He intended to take it to a film festival in early 2013.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[10] ==Release<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Before Midnight premiered on January 20, 2013, at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[11]  It had its international premiere out of competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Berlin_12-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[12]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">The film opened to general audiences on May 24, 2013, at five theaters in New York, Los Angeles, and Austin, Texas.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Initial_release_schedule_13-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[13]  It was released wide in 897 theaters on June 14, 2013.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-mojo_14-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[14] ===Box office<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">The film grossed $8,110,621 domestically and $12,626,409 overseas, for a worldwide gross of $20,737,030.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-numbers_3-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[3] ===Critical reception<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Like the first two films of the trilogy, Before Midnight received widespread critical acclaim. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 98% based on reviews from 172 critics, with an average rating of 8.7/10. The site's consensus is: "Building on the first two installments in Richard Linklater's well-crafted Before trilogy, Before Midnightoffers intelligent, powerfully acted perspectives on love, marriage, and long-term commitment."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[15]  Metacritic gives the film a score of 94 based on reviews from 41 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". It was listed as the third-best film of the year after 12 Years a Slave and Gravity.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[16]  It was the second-best reviewed film of 2013 according to Rotten Tomatoes, after Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[17]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">According to Total Film's Philip Kemp, <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">"As with its two predecessors — and with the films of French New Wave director Éric Rohmer, presiding deity of this kind of cinema—Midnight's essentially a film about people talking. But when the talk's this good, this absorbing and revealing and witty and true, who's going to complain?" Kemp described it as a "more-than-worthy, expectation-exceeding chapter in one of modern cinema's finest love stories. As honest, convincing, funny, intimate and natural as its predecessors."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[18] <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Perry Seibert of AllMovie also praised the film, writing: "The screenwriting trio fill the movie with long, discursive conversations (there are only two scenes in the first 20 minutes) that feel utterly improvised when they are performed, but are far too deftly structured to be anything other than the work of consummate artists."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[19]  Eric Kohn, from Indiewire, gave the film rave reviews, adding it to his list of Top 10 Films of 2013. He wrote that "With Before Midnight, Richard Linklater has completed one of the finest movie trilogies of all time."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[20] ==Accolades<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;"><sup style="line-height:1;font-size:11.1999998092651px;"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_1" style="word-wrap:break-word;">^[I]  Each date is linked to the article about the awards held that year. ===Top ten lists<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">According to Metacritic, the film appeared on the following critics' top 10 lists of 2013.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-56" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[56]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">The A.V. Club film critics named "The fight" scene the Scene of the Year.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-75" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[75]
 * 1st – James Berardinelli, ReelViews
 * 1st – The A.V. Club
 * 1st – Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
 * 1st – Stephen Holden, The New York Times
 * 1st – Justin Chang, Variety<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Changtop10_57-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[57]
 * 2nd – A.A. Dowd, The A.V. Club<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-The_A.V._Club_58-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[58]
 * 2nd – Nick Schager, The A.V. Club<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-The_A.V._Club_58-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[58]
 * 2nd – Total Film's 50 Best Movies of 2013<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TotalFilm50_59-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[59]
 * 2nd – E!<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-60" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[60]
 * 3rd – Lisa Schwarzbaum, BBC<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-61" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[61]
 * 3rd – 3 News<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-62" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[62]
 * 3rd – Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
 * 3rd – Eric Kohn, Indiewire
 * 3rd – Film Comment's 50 Best Films of 2013<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FilmComment_63-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[63]
 * 4th – Christopher Rosen & Mike Ryan, The Huffington Post
 * 4th – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
 * 4th – Kristopher Tapleys, HitFix<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-64" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[64]
 * 5th – Robert Gifford, The Diamondback<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Gifford_65-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[65]
 * 6th – Sam Adams, The A.V. Club<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-The_A.V._Club_58-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[58]
 * 6th – Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DailyBeast_66-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[66]
 * 6th - Lukas Krycek, Comedian/Film Critic <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-67" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[67]
 * 7th – Stephanie Zacharek, The Village Voice<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-VillageVoice_68-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[68]
 * 7th – Digital Spy<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-69" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[69]
 * 8th – Empire
 * 8th – Scott MacDonald, The A.V. Club<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-The_A.V._Club_58-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[58]
 * 8th – Chris Vognar, The Dallas Morning News<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Vognar_70-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[70]
 * 11th – Ben Kenigsberg, The A.V. Club<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-The_A.V._Club_58-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[58]
 * 12th – Glenn Kenny's 30 Top Films of 2013<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-GlennKenny_71-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[71]
 * 14th – Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, The A.V. Club<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-The_A.V._Club_58-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[58]
 * In alphabetical order – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
 * In alphabetical order – Dana Stevens, Slate
 * Best films of 2013 – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bradshaw2013_72-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[72]
 * Best movies of the year – David Denby, The New Yorker<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-73" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[73]
 * Best movies of 2013 – The Week<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-74" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[74]