Before Midnight

"Everything's better with maturity."

R 2013 · 1h 49m · Drama, Romance
Starring Ethan Hawke · Julie Delpy · Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
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About

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.

Theatrical
Jun 14, 2013
Digital
Oct 15, 2013
Box Office
$11.2M
Budget
$3.0M
Return
3.7x
DVD / Blu-ray
Oct 22, 2013
Theaters
1
Director
Richard Linklater
Producers
Martin Shafer, John Sloss, Richard Linklater
Music
Graham Reynolds
Studio
Castle Rock Entertainment, Detour Filmproduction, Faliro House Productions, Venture Forth, IM Global
Themes
hotel airport hotel room greece dreams greek friends author writer summer vacation twins semi autobiographical dreary romantic
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A Memorable Night Ahead
Jesse Do you think it could be tonight that you're still talking about in your 80s?
Céline Well, it must have been one hell of a night we're about to have.
The Struggles of Real Love
Jesse You're just like the little girls and everybody else. You wanna live inside some fairy tale. I'm just trying to make things better. I tell you that I love you unconditionally, I tell you that you're beautiful, I tell you that your ass looks great when you're 80. I try to make you laugh.
Céline OK.
Jesse All right, I put up with plenty of your shit. And if you think I'm just some dog who's gonna keep coming back, then you're wrong. But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect, but it's real. And if you can't see it, then you're blind, all right, and I give up.
Acceptance of Flaws in Love
Jesse I am giving you my whole life OK? I got nothing larger to give, I'm not giving it to anybody else. If you're looking for permission to disqualify me, I'm not gonna give it to you. OK? I love you. And I'm not in conflict about it. OK? But if what you want is like a laundry list of all the things that piss me off, I can give it to you.
Céline Yeah, I want to hear.
Jesse Okay well, number 1, you're fucking nuts! You are. Good luck! Find somebody else to put up with your shit for more than like 6 months, okay? But I accept the whole package, the crazy and the brilliant. I know you're not gonna change and I don't want you to. It's called accepting you for being you.
The Struggles of Motherhood and Isolation
Céline Very few people realize what it is like for an active or passionate woman to have a child. Some friends told me, "you'll see, you'll want to throw them out the window." Okay, but the truth is I never wanted to hurt them once but I thought about ending it all for myself a hundred times. I was so confused, and you were always away on a stupid book tour or because of Henry's custody shit and I didn't want to be a burden. Now I know why ] put her head in a toaster.
[[Sylvia Plath]
Jesse It was an oven.
Céline Don't play with words. You know what I mean - toaster, oven. Same thing. You know how many times I was alone with the girls crying with no clue what to do? Do you know the guilt a mother feels when she doesn't know what to do?
Jesse Do you think you have sole ownership of that feeling?
Céline I don't think you understand, okay? You know what my secret fear is? With every man? Is that they all want to turn me into a submissive housewife.
Jesse Okay, no one could ever do that, all right? I promise, it would be easier to fit your head into a toaster than to turn you into anything submissive.
Céline I don't think I've recovered since giving birth. When they were born, I had no idea what to do. People expect women to have instinct that kicks in, like a female baboon. But I had no idea how to do anything. I loved them so much, and I was doing everything wrong. And you were away so often, calling me, asking me how my day went, and I couldn't even say it to you because I felt so ashamed for being so clueless.
Jesse Look, I think you did great.

The "Before" trilogy—comprising "Before Sunrise," "Before Sunset," and "Before Midnight"—chronicles the evolving relationship of Jesse and Céline, capturing their encounters across three different per...

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