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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Before Midnight: my most overrated film

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy seem to think they’re scaling the intellectual heights as they swan around the sun-kissed Greek countryside, but their conversational ramblings are as dull as ditchwaterMore overrated films “How long’s it been since we wandered around, bullshitting?” asks Ethan Hawke in Before Midnight. The answer, for my money, is not bloody long enough. Give it a rest. I don’t want to hear any more from you two.Hawke’s Jesse and Julie Delpy’s Céline have spent the summer, along with their angelic twin girls and Jesse’s adolescent son from his first marriage, at a writers’ retreat in Greece. It’s been a long time since he and Céline first met on a train circa 1995 and spent a heady Viennese night together. This is the final part of Richard Linklater’s trilogy, and, it turns out, the two fortysomethings are even more irritating than their twentysomething selves. Continue reading...


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