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Before Midnight
Nobody tells you the love story keeps going after the ending. Sometimes it looks like a fight in a hotel room. 🌅 #BeforeMidnight
Who it's for
Before Midnight shows a long-term couple doing what most films skip: an argument that starts small and escalates through years of unspoken resentment about careers, children and sacrifice.
Feelings it meets
What it is
The third film in Richard Linklater's trilogy, set nine years after Jesse and Céline reunited in Paris. Now a couple with twin daughters, they are on holiday on Greece's Peloponnese peninsula as Jesse's teenage son Hank, from a previous relationship, leaves for Chicago.
Where to find it
Rent or buy on major digital stores. Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: Bitter marital argument; brief nudity.
Age: R (MPAA; for sexual content/nudity and language)
It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding;Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, “On Giving”
