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'Before Midnight' At Tribeca Film Festival: Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater Discuss Film
Posted: 04/23/2013 10:43 am EDT | Updated: 04/23/2013 10:48 pm EDT
At the Tribeca Film Festival on Monday evening, celebrities descended onto the red carpet at the Borough of Manhattan Community College theater for the New York premiere of “Before Midnight.” The film's stars, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, who also collaborated on its script, were chipping away at the media, with Hawke wearing a black fedora and Delpy as elegant as ever in a stretchy long-sleeved dress that swept the floor. "Before Midnight" is the third (and, maybe not final) film in director Richard Linklater’s romantic film trilogy, and sees lovers Jesse and Celine, now in their 40s with twin daughters, doing what they do best: walking and talking and arguing, this time through sun-soaked Greece. It's not a far stretch from the project that started it all -- 1995’s “Before Sunrise” and their initial, fated meeting on a train to Vienna -- but a lot can happen in almost 20 years. Here's what they had to say.
How would Jesse and Celine meet if “Before Sunrise” were set in the present day?
Hawke: The first movie, it’d be a totally different piece right now. It doesn’t feel like that much has changed, but a lot of things have changed. It’s strange, my kids can’t believe I grew up in a world without the Internet. But the matching scenario, I find it bizarre.
Linklater: It’s just a whole different movie. It was kind of behind the curve then [technology-wise]. There’s a record, going to a listening booth in a record store, that was pretty antique and obsolete even then, and we shot that in ‘94. So it was always behind the curve, technologically speaking. You could be online back then. But not that many people were. It was more the romantic idea of not connecting. And now it just seems impossible that two people wouldn’t exchange digits of some kind. So that conceit would be hard to pull off.
Some have suggested that a “Before" film will come out every nine years until, well, Jesse and Celine die. Will this be an ongoing thing?
Linklater: It’s coincidental, I think, that these last two have been nine years. It just worked out that way. I think it’d be funny if we did one like 18 months from now and it was some genre -- thriller, comedy or something. Some action film. Wouldn’t that be bizarre? Celine and Jesse would just, yeah, same characters, same stage in life, just a year-and-a-half later, realize you’re in some weird genre. We’re going to do that.
Did Jesse cheat on his wife in that final scene of the last movie, “Before Sunset”? You know, when Celine had invited him back to her apartment and he misses his flight? It’s assumed in the new movie but not completely spelled out.
Hawke: For me to answer that, I wouldn’t have made that movie. But the point is, it’s creating a situation that makes you think about that subject. What is fidelity, fidelity to yourself, fidelity to your past commitments, what does that mean? That’s what the movie is asking you to think about, not, "Did he?" I mean, you know, yes, in the first two [films] it’s, “Are they going to get back together?” The point is, it’s supposed to provoke that kind of thought. And if I answer it, I delete the point of it. [beat] You know exactly what he did, and so do I.
You look disgruntled with my answer. The funny thing is that that’s what Jesse and Celine are discussing at the beginning of “Before Sunset,” when she’s asking, but what happens to those characters in your book, what happens? You see? We’re role-playing here, you and me.
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Source: 'Before Midnight' At Tribeca Film Festival: Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater Discuss Film
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'Before Midnight': Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater Tease a Fourth Movie
12:40 PM PDT 4/23/2013 by Erin Carlson
Reuniting at the Tribeca Film Festival, the actor and director along with Julie Delpy discuss the continuing saga of Jesse and Celine.
Fans of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, Richard Linklater's films co-starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as star-crossed lovers, will certainly be riveted by the director's latest installment, Before Midnight, which delivers the same talky romance as the first two movies but with a giant -- and brutal -- helping of marital discord.
Although the trouble-in-paradise plotline exposes cracks within the facade of a seemingly perfect union of two soulmates, Jesse and Celine, Delpy -- who co-wrote the film along with Hawke and Linklater -- says she's not worried about alienating Before devotees.
"This one is romantic too but in a different sort of way," said the actress on Monday, joining Hawke and Linklater at a panel ahead of a Before Midnight screening at the Tribeca Film Festival.
"I think people want things that ring true and we tried to make this film ring true -- keep it romantic but not in a romantic way that's, you know, 'Oooh, people are getting married!'" she noted. "Romanticism is not necessarily just one typical, 'this happens, this happens, they get together,' boom. End of film."
The ending of Before Midnight echoes those of the previous films, which closed on notes of ambiguity and, in the case of 2004's Before Sunset, longing and sexual tension as Jesse decides whether to stay in Paris with Celine or catch his flight home to the U.S., where he's got a wife and son.
"I've always thought it should be erotica," said Hawke of the trilogy, which rolled out beginning in 1995 with Before Sunrise and includes a raw and emotionally-charged love scene in the third act, which opens in limited release May 24.
"I'm like, 18 years of frustration!" declared Hawke, to which Delpy quipped: "On that level, you haven't aged at all."
(Throughout the discussion, life imitated art as the two bantered and bickered much like they do in the movies, but always with the joking rapport of longtime friends. "We have chemistry because we're actors," Delpy explained. "We don't live together. We don't have sex. ... We love each other.")
As for the possibility of another installment (which would see Jesse and Celine in their early '50s), Linklater said: "There were threads to the others. You can't see [Before Midnight] and not know that that's conscious. We're tying it, loosely, to the other two but it wasn't a summation. ... People have different opinions, but it's definitely not a final vibe, I don't think."
He added: "There might be another one, who knows? At least we don't have to think about it for five years."
Chiming in to big laughs, Hawke -- possibly alluding to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -- joked: "It has to do with these Mayan temples. In Rome."
The Greece-set Before Midnight, which Linklater secretly filmed last summer with cast and crew notified just three weeks' ahead of time, debuted to massive buzz and critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Shortly afterward, Sony Pictures Classics acquired domestic and U.K. rights for somewhere in the ballpark of the mid-seven figures, making it one of the biggest deals of the fest.
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Source: 'Before Midnight': Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater Tease a Fourth Movie - The Hollywood Reporter
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Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy Are Not So Sure About Soul Mates
By Jennifer Vineyard
Do soul mates exist? You might think so if you've been following the saga of Jesse and Celine across the breadth of Richard Linklater's indie film trilogy Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and now Before Midnight. The premise: Two strangers who meet on a train feel an inescapable pull that now spans decades and continents. Can a love like that really be denied? Jesse and Celine themselves (sorry, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy) reminded us last night, at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Before Midnight, that it's just a movie — and movies set us up for unrealistic expectations. "I don't really understand that concept, soul mates," Delpy said. "I don't necessarily believe that soul mates are who you end up in a relationship with. And I don't know about the soul — I'm not sure the soul exists! In my last film [2 Days in New York], my soul was in Vincent Gallo's underwear, so it's hard for me to say. It's too crazy!"
Says Hawke: "I sometimes resist the notion [of a soul mate] because it creates this idea for people who are single that there is something missing, which I don't think is true. If you find somebody who feels like a soul mate, you're the exception. We create this idea [in the movies], but it's like being born Michael Jordan. Not everybody gets to be that fast. But that doesn't mean my life is less because I'm not Michael Jordan."
That's not to say that Hawke and Delpy, who also co-wrote the movie with director Linklater, don't believe in love. It's just that Midnight presents a more realistic idea of long-term commitment. "The first two films are about flirting — in this one, the flirting's over!" Delpy said with a laugh. (Spoiler alert: Jesse and Celine are now raising a pair of twins together, and their new focus is on keeping their relationship going despite work and life struggles.) Will love be enough? "Love is a big word," Hawke said. "It would be horribly arrogant of us to presume to make a statement about something as big as love, but it's our relationship to it, for sure. People who are fans of the other movies, I'm sure their relationships to romance and love are changing, too, as they grow up. It would be weirdly stagnant of us to not address that, you know?"
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Source: Hawke and Delpy Are Not So Sure About Soul Mates -- Vulture
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