Before Midnight is a beautiful film, sensitive, emotional and extremely well acted and well put together, but I didn't feel that till hours after I watched the film. In fact this film did not appeal to me initially as much as the first two movies, probably because unlike the others, the events of this film mostly happen indoors.
These are not the Jesse and Celine you met before, they are not as smart and funny and bohemian as they seemed in the first two movies. The film opens with Jesse saying goodbye to his estranged son at the airport, leaving with a heart heavy with guilt and then transferring that guilt on to Celine, a happy vacation spiraling to an all time low due to people being too complicated. But it ends with the same people learning to get over their pettiness and love seeing them through their hard times as individuals.
After the film gets over, their conversations linger with you, make you think about life and what we really want from it and how we let the simple, good things slip by just being caught up with small worries and insecurities. We needed each of these films at different phases of our lives, the first one was romantic, the second one heart warming and the third, sad but still hopeful.
We will miss Jesse and Celine but I surely don't want to watch them again, this time old and dying, because that would be just heartbreaking-ly sad.
