It's twenty years after this and a decade after that as they joke about in the movie, and that third act just killed it. Whenever it was that I first watched the first one, a somewhat untypical romantic comedy starring the 1990's old Julie Delpy, a frenchwoman on her way back from her grandmother, and Ethan Hawke, an american man flying home from vienna after some time backpacking in europe. They talk for a minute before reaching the trainstation, and upon getting out, he crabs his courrage to ask the silly question : do you want to go out with me? Litteraly. Out of the train, meaning. Well, that's the first one. A lengh-long dialog between the two smart 20- something in linklater's screenplaying style, and the second act, shows the man as a writer whom found some success based on a novel he wrote about their encounter. But twenty years later, it seems like none of the rom-com clichés are left to exploit. The two worned out forty something still have some wit if only to satirize over the bad shape of their relationship, after ten years of daily lives and twins, which only makes it more realistic. I wonder if they'll go as far as making a fourth one...
Review of Before Midnight
