“Before Midnight” is the third installment of director Richard Linklater‘s romantic trilogy that first ignited in 1995 when Jesse
Wallace (Ethan Hawke), a young American author, and Celine (Julie Delpy), a young French woman, meet on a train to Vienna. Their love
story continued in 2004 with “Before Sunset” when their paths once again
intersect in Paris. Nine years later, Celine and Jesse are together
seemingly happy as they holiday in Greece with their twin daughters, but
fissures are building as they debate their future, and the consequences
of their decisions.
As with the two previous films, Linklater’s
engaging naturalistic style easily immerses you into their world of long
conversations that ping pong between intimacy and regret.
In this
video interview, film journalist Katherine Tulich speaks to stars Ethan
Hawke, Julie Delpy and director Richard Linklater on how life has
changed not only for the maturing protagonists, and also how the films
reflect and impact their own lives.
