Event

Before Midnight

Directed by Richard Linklater
Starring Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy
English
1 hr 48 mins, rated R

Nine years after their acclaimed, Oscar-nominated collaboration Before Sunset, director Richard Linklater and actors/screenwriters Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy update one of the most iconic love stories in contemporary cinema. Almost two decades after their first encounter in Vienna, Jesse and Celine spend a six-week vacation together in the southern Peloponnese, where they begin to face the challenges of a long-term relationship and the strain of other professional and personal responsibilities. From a spirited conversation about sex, love, and politics at the home of a Greek novelist, to a painful discussion about the fate of Jesse's teenage son from his previous marriage, the lovers bare their souls in this intimate, complex, and beautifully sustained interrogation on the joy and agony of romantic commitment.