A documentary that takes a look at the production of BEFORE MIDNIGHT. As the film starts, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke are sitting around as filming has just completed. From here we get some terrific stories as they talk about the characters as well as what they bring and take from them. We also get footage from the filming of the movie where we get to see how the actors and director work together to try and build up the scenes.
Direction
Tsangari captures creative exhaustion with surgical precision.
Acting
Delpy and Hawke unpack 20 years of shared fictional history.
Director
Athina Rachel Tsangari
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tsangari was specifically chosen by Linklater because her own films explore similar themes of bodies in space and conversational tension.
Walter Lassally — the elderly dinner guest in BEFORE MIDNIGHT — appears here as himself; he was also cinematographer on Zorba the Greek, making this a meta-documentary of two films about Greek passion.
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