Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Before Midnight

Romance, Drama
3 stars
Good, but not as good as its predecessors, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset.  Ethan Hawk and Julie Delpy reprise their roles as lovers who met nearly 20 years ago, then finally got together in the second film; now, nine years after uniting, they are having marital woes.  The first two films were about falling in love, this one spends too much time on an endless argument that they frustratingly never resolve.  The solution to their problem that I had in my head (a bi-continental compromise) never even came up as an option.   There is the lovely backdrop of Greece, and I loved a long dinner conversation they had with three other couples.   Only for those fans of the first two films who feel invested enough to see the end of the trilogy.

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