Movie

Before Midnight

2013 · 109 min

A talky, intimate immersion in a long relationship's strains and tenderness, by turns warm, tense, and quietly devastating.

Tagline: Everything's better with maturity.
Overview: 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 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.
How it feels: Romantic, melancholic, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Love, family, parenthood, aging
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: romanticstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
family
parenthood
aging
identity
Places: countryside
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild