Before...

3 movies in this series

Now Playing Podcast spends a lifetime in conversation with Richard Linklater’s Before Trilogy. Ethan Hawke’s Jesse and Julie Delpy’s Céline meet by chance in Before Sunrise, reconnect nine years later in Before Sunset, and face the realities of love, commitment, and growing older in Before Midnight. Join us for reviews of all three films in this intimate, decades-spanning romance.

Movie Reviews

Now Playing Approved Staff Pick

Before Sunset

We probably wouldn't have finished this podcast if we wer...

Reviewed Jan 27, 2015
Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of the day together before Jesse has to again leave for a flight. They are both in relationships now, and Jesse has a son, but as their strong feelings for each other start to return, both confess a longing for more. Genres: Drama, Romance
Now Playing Approved

Before Midnight

It's not the love of one other person that matters, it's ...

Reviewed Feb 3, 2015
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 at 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. Genres: Drama, Romance