Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Ethan Hawke | ... | Jesse | |
Julie Delpy | ... | Celine | |
Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick | ... | Hank | |
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Jennifer Prior | ... | Ella |
Charlotte Prior | ... | Nina | |
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Xenia Kalogeropoulou | ... | Natalia |
Walter Lassally | ... | Patrick | |
Ariane Labed | ... | Anna | |
Yiannis Papadopoulos | ... | Achilleas (as Yannis Papadopoulos) | |
Athina Rachel Tsangari | ... | Ariadni (as Athiná-Rachél Tsangári) | |
Panos Koronis | ... | Stefanos | |
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Enrico Focardi | ... | Child |
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Manolis Goussias | ... | Child |
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Anouk Servera | ... | Child |
Yota Argyropoulou | ... | Hotel Clerk |
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 on 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. Written by Peter Brandt Nielsen
I liked the first two films of these interconnected movies "Before Sunrise"(1995) and "Before Sunset"(2004). I've always liked Ethan Hawke's acting and I thought the scripts were full of life and fresh dialog. I felt that way for maybe 1/2 of this latest film and then, for me, it just deteriorated into one long argument between the two protagonists, often accompanied by vicious barbs and personal verbal attacks. I thought for a moment I was back watching "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", from decades before.
It was not entertaining for me to watch Jesse(Hawke) and Celine(Julie Delpy) try to win this argument by throwing out all the stereotypes, generalizations, and platitudes that you might find in "Men Are From Mars-Women Are From Venus". They've been together now for many years, and the parents of twin girls Ella and Nina. Jesse is divorced and his son Henry is just leaving Jesse to head back to the States where he lives with his mother. They've all been vacationing in beautiful Greece for the summer.
As mentioned, why ruin all the positives of the first two films and half of this one with all this mean spiritedness?