Richard Linklater is a director who is obsessed with time, more specifically the development of people over large swaths of time.
Whether you’re new to the series, or an old faithful, this one deserves your undivided attention.
Seeing Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke revisit these characters over the course of two decades has been a refreshing alternative to most romantic dramas, or most films, tend to do these days, and they’re always teasing another go ’round to do it again.
While he would condense this approach into one film with his Academy Award nominated film Boyhood, he would tackle a similar theme with his sprawling Before trilogy – to which Before Midnight acts as the current finale.