Before Midnight

“The great idea didn't really gel.”

These movies prove it is possible to finish a trilogy on a high.

Nothing is coming after ‘Before Midnight.’

Ethan Hawke says five years after each movie, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and he decide if they should make another. 2018 is five years since ‘Midnight.’

Even for a guy whose films are unified by their pervasive sense of chillness, Richard Linklater’s never been lacking in ambition. He’s pulled off formless philosophical rambles (Slacker, Waking Life) and a bildungsroman twelve years in the making (Boyhood), but his grandest project has to be the Before trilogy of romance films. Across three decades and three pictures (1995’s Before Sunrise, 2004’s Before Sunset, and 2013’s Before Midnight) Linklater has tracked what could justly be named one of cinema’s great love affairs as it’s progressed from infatuation at first sight to a long-awaited reunion to adult life and the domesticity that goes with it.

Richard Linklater brings his 'Before' trilogy to close this week with 'Before Midnight,' in which we pick up with Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) 10 years after the second film. 'Before Sunrise' found our characters making an unlikely, serendipitous connection; 'Before Sunset' examined how they evolved 10 years later, and whether that initial connection could stand the test of time; a

Allow me to mar the sophisticated, near-painterly screenplay of Richard Linklater's 'Before Midnight' with these purple lines from the Steve Miller Band: time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future. Oozing sagacity, melancholia and, if you work at it, hope, the third and best (and hopefully not final...

In June we reported that Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and director Richard Linklater were thinking about making a trilogy of their 'Before' films. Now it appears that they've already finished shooting the film, which is now known as 'Before Midnight.'