Before Midnight (2013)
87%RT Audience Score: 82%
Awards & Nominations: Nominated for 1 Oscar
20 wins & 63 nominations total
Building on the first two installments in Richard Linklater’s well-crafted Before trilogy, Before Midnight offers intelligent, powerfully acted perspectives on love, marriage, and long-term commitment
Before Midnight is the perfect movie for anyone who loves a good love story, but also wants a dose of reality. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy are back as Jesse and Celine, and this time they’re in Greece. The scenery is breathtaking, but the real beauty is in the way they talk to each other. They argue, they laugh, they cry, and they make up. It’s like watching a real couple, flaws and all. If you’re looking for a movie that will make you believe in love, but also make you grateful for your own imperfect relationship, this is it. Plus, it’s got some killer one-liners that will have you quoting it for days.
Production Company(ies)
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Marvel Entertainment,
Distributor
Sony Pictures Classics
Release Type
Streaming, Theatrical, Theatrical (Limited)
Filming Location(s)
The Westin Resort Costa Navarino, Messinia, Greece
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for sexual content/nudity and language
Year of Release
2013
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Digital Datasat SDDS
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:1h 49m
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Language(s):English, Greek, French
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): May 24, 2013 Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 22, 2013
Genre(s)
Romance/Drama
Keyword(s)
Worldwide gross: $20,994,648
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $26,670,510
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,590
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 2,908,453
US/Canada gross: $8,114,627
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $10,308,400
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,606
US/Canada opening weekend: $246,914
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $313,667
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,525
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $3,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $3,811,044
Production budget ranking: 1,950
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $2,052,247
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $20,807,218
ROI to date (est.): 355%
ROI ranking: 391
Director(s)
Richard Linklater
Writer(s)
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Producer(s)
Richard Linklater, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Sara Woodhatch
Film Festivals
Sundance, South by Southwest
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 1 Oscar
20 wins & 63 nominations total
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
All Critics (206) | Top Critics (62) | Fresh (201) | Rotten (5)
A refreshing counter-point to Hollywood’s typical happily ever after stories.
January 15, 2021
Oktay Ege Kozak
Bitch Media
TOP CRITIC
Unleashing a stream of feminist consciousness that is both outraged and outrageous-and cathartic because we are laughing with her, not at her-Céline emerges as a 21st-century hero and Delpy as the Carole Lombard of our time.
August 28, 2019
Amy Taubin
Film Comment Magazine
TOP CRITIC
While the film has certainly satisfied many audiences and critics across the board, I was left very cold and bewildered, questioning what I even saw.
September 6, 2017
Candice Frederick
Reel Talk Online
TOP CRITIC
‘Before Midnight’ has all the best qualities of ‘Sunrise’ and ‘Sunset’ (a love of conversational dialogue, long takes that value the joy of performance and interaction, gorgeous European locations), yet it is a grander and more complicated achievement.
June 21, 2016
Jason Bailey
Flavorwire
TOP CRITIC
Hawke and Delpy, who co-wrote the screenplay with Linklater, make this oscillation between badinage and feistiness, cosiness and irritability, look effortless.
June 22, 2015
Sukhdev Sandhu
Sight & Sound
TOP CRITIC
This is a universal X-ray of bourgeois love, one that in a few decades will get around to something like Amour.
January 6, 2014
Wesley Morris
Grantland
TOP CRITIC
Before Midnight’s journey is not only an intellectual one.
March 3, 2021
David Bax
Battleship Pretension
Done with humor, heart and pathos, often in the same scene, it is a poignant farewell to two characters who grew up in front of us.
January 31, 2021 | Rating: 4.5/5
Richard Crouse
Richard Crouse
Linklater closes one of the best romantic trilogies in the history of modern cinema with Before Midnight. [Full review in Spanish]
June 25, 2020 | Rating: 8/10
Yasser Medina
Cinemaficionados
In the brilliant third part of Richard Linklater’s two-decade spanning trilogy, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy stroll through a paradise-on-earth slice of Greece.
June 19, 2020
David Lamble
Bay Area Reporter
Having spent some of the most romantic scenes in all of cinema in their company (a stroll at dawn in Vienna, Delpy singing “A Waltz for a Night”), the thought of their divorce will hit you harder than any of your own breakups.
April 5, 2020
Asher Luberto
L.A. Weekly
Beautifully lensed by Christos Voudouris, the light, the location are celebratory and metaphoric with a timeless classic beauty serving as a testament to the battles of life and marriage and surviving with dignity and grace.
January 7, 2020
Debbie Lynn Elias
Behind The Lens…
Plot
It 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 on 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.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
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