Genre: Film
Grade: B+
Notable People: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delphy, Directed by Richard Linklater
Title: Before Midnight
Review –This is Linklater’s third in the series with Hawke and Delphy. It started with them meeting on a train while touring Europe in 1993, picked up with finding each other again ten years later in 2003 and now they are married and in Greece for a family vacation in 2013. If you did not see the first two- you probably won’t like this one. These films are intense- with mostly just two people having dialog- and this one has it’s share of midlife crisis-almost painful at times to watch. The acting is magnificent. Greece is stunning and Linklater is really out there in his filmmaking. I have seen all three of these movies by myself which is pretty weird as they seem like date movies- but, hell, I’m just out on a date with me. I spent the whole film fascinated with Julie’s slight “English as a well worn second language” accent- which i finally realized sounded just like my friend Ana in NYC. Slow moving, eccentric and well done film.