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Before Midnight
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7.5It 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.
Cast
- 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
Themes
- hotel
- hotel room
- dreams
- airport
- greece
- greek
- friends
- author
- writer
- summer vacation
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Richard Linklater
- Written by
- Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke , Julie Delpy
- Based on
- Characters , by Richard Linklater, and Kim Krizan
- Produced by
- Richard Linklater, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos , Sara Woodhatch
- Starring
- Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
- Cinematography
- Christos Voudouris
- Edited by
- Sandra Adair
- Music by
- Graham Reynolds
- Production companies
- Castle Rock Entertainment , Faliro House Productions, Venture Forth , Detour Filmproduction
- Distributed by
- Sony Pictures Classics
- Release dates
- January 20, 2013 ( 2013-01-20 ) ( Sundance ) May 24, 2013 ( 2013-05-24 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 109 minutes
- Countries
- United States, Greece
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $3 million
- Box office
- $23.3 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 109
- FilmAffinity ID
- 543363
- Official website
- www.beforemidnightmovie.com
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- title
- Before Midnight
- capital cost
- 3000000
- box office
- 8114627
- review score
- 7.9/10
- Commons category
- Before Midnight
- publication date
- 2013-08-01
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Before Midnight is a 2013 romantic drama film directed by Richard Linklater, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. The sequel to Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004), it is the third and final installment in the Before trilogy. The film follows Jesse (Hawke) and Céline (Delpy), now a couple, as they spend a summer vacation in Greece with their children.
Linklater, Hawke, and Delpy began developing a third film in 2011, wishing to replicate the nine-year gap between the first two installments. Principal photography began in August 2012, and took place entirely on the Peloponnese coast in Southern Greece, including the Kardamyli home formerly owned by author Patrick Leigh Fermor. Like its predecessors, Before Midnight has a minimal plot, with considerable screentime devoted to extended conversations between the characters.