This movie is just about as good as Boyhood. The other two films are great Sunrise being quite a bit better than Sunset. I really just loved them whole heatedly though. While I really do love those films I think that Midnight tops them. Sunrise had the joy of love blossoming, Sunset had the joy of reuniting with someone you have deep feelings for but, with some things that get in the way. Midnight at it's beginning immediately succeeds over the other two because there is a joyful sense of very heavy nostalgia. You've been with these people for a long time and it's good to see them where they are. The camera pans around a mini-van and we see Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) sitting in it with two young children sleeping in the back. Suddenly it flew through my head "My god they made it." That's wonderful. Than the film goes ahead and takes that wonderful feeling and runs with it. The following scene sucks you in and also leaves you wildly impressed. Richard Linklater's dialogue here much like in Boyhood is so smooth and works so well that you almost think that it was improvised by the fantastic actors. Here you see a steadicam shot (A trick you will find in all the Before films as well as Boyhood) with actors talking in one take. The dialogue is so smooth and it builds and so does the happiness of the entire film. Then you start to notice in the conversation as they start to burn all of their relationship to the ground. They continue to talk about whether they could stand each other for 56 years or so. This conversation again is an incredible feat of dialogue. They are joking and laughing and then ever so subtly the word of question come into the conversation. They build and build and suddenly they are talking about whether or not their relationship will last. This is a little bit of a shock,but that's just the start of it. You are feeling "oh no" what will they do? I being a good critic (maybe) will not reveal what happens in the film. Also I will say is in a very repetitious way the fact is they have an argument for the books. You might have noticed the fact that I have mentioned dialogue quite a bit in this review. This film is fueled by it and all of it is delivered in the most fantastic way possible forming a story of how love endures and continues but, not without falters. Before Midnight gets put into the best pictures roster.
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