Preston Barta // Editor
THE BEFORE TRILOGY
Rated R, 290 minutes.
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy
Available Tuesday (2/28) on Blu-ray and DVD through the Criterion Collection.
An American man and a French woman in their early 20s meet on a training traveling through Europe. They stop and shoot the breeze in Vienna for some time before they part ways.
Each of the plots in the BEFORE trilogy could be written on a sticky note. However, Richard Linklater (EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!, BOYHOOD) has never been a filmmaker to concern himself too much with plot.
While each of the films have their own individual arcs (all set nine years apart), it’s the free flowing, natural conversations between the two leads (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy) that cement these films as one of the most romantic and realistic love stories to ever be put on celluloid.
Now, for the first time, all three chapters (BEFORE SUNRISE, BEFORE SUNSET, and BEFORE MIDNIGHT) are available on Blu-ray, with a beautiful 2K digital transfer. And what better home distributor to make it happen than the Criterion Collection, with their director approved packaging and loaded bonus materials?
If you’re a Criterion collector, or a movie collector in general, The BEFORE Trilogy is a seamless collection to own. Not only is it fun to hang out with these characters across nearly 20 years, but their dialogue also contains many nuggets of wisdom for anyone who’s in a relationship, no matter what stage.
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