2013 · romance · drama
Before Midnight
Directed by Richard Linklater1h 49m2013
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.
Our read: Before Midnight (2013) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded romance · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle romance / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- measured
- intimate
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