Before Midnight
2013 · Movie · R · 109 min · ★ 7.5 · 96% critics
After years together, a couple spends the end of a Greek summer with family and friends while facing questions about parenthood, distance, and the choices that shaped their lives. What begins as a sunlit vacation becomes a candid look at love under pressure.
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Details
- Years
- 2013
- Release date
- 2013-04-05
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Critic score
- 96/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.5/10 (2,710 votes)
- Box office
- $23,245,195
- Budget
- $3,000,000
About
You’ll like this if you enjoy intimate, conversation-driven relationship drama with humor and tension; Not for you if you want fast plotting or an easy romantic escape.
Pros: honest relationship portrait; natural chemistry; thoughtful conversations | Cons: argument-heavy tone; emotionally draining; talky pace
Themes
- hotel
- hotel room
- dreams
- airport
- greece
- greek
- friends
- author
- writer
- summer vacation
- twins
- semi autobiographical
- +2 more
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 2014 · nominated
Cast & crew
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
Walter Lassally
as Patrick
Ariane Labed
as Anna
Yiannis Papadopoulos
as Achilleas
Athina Rachel Tsangari
as Ariadni
Directed by Richard Linklater