The Before Trilogy (1995-2013)

Director: Richard Linklater
Writers: Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert

An exquisitely understated ode to the thrill of romantic possibility, the inaugural installment of The Before Trilogy opens with a chance encounter between two solitary young strangers. After they hit it off on a train bound for Vienna, the Paris university student Celine and the scrappy American tourist Jesse impulsively decide to spend a day together before he returns to the U.S. the next morning. As the pair roam the streets of the stately city, Richard Linklater’s tenderly observant gaze captures the uncertainty and intoxication of young love, from the first awkward stirrings of attraction to the hopeful promise that Celine and Jesse make upon their inevitable parting.

Bonus:
- The Space in Between - presented here is a filmed conversation between director Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy, moderated by critic Kent Jones. There is an abundance of information about Richard Linklater's film career and the production history of Before Sunrise, including the casting process, and the other two films in The Before Trilogy. The conversation was recorded exclusively for Criterion in New York and Los Angeles in 2016.
- 3X2: A Conversation - in this new featurette, writers Dave Johnson (Contemporary Film Directors: Richard Linklater) and Rob Stone (The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run) discuss Before Sunrise and some of the similarities and differences between the three films in The Before Trilogy.
- Behind the Scenes - in this archival piece, director Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy quickly address the unique nature of the relationship between Jesse and Celine.













Director: Richard Linklater
Writers: Richard Linklater (screenplay), Julie Delpy (screenplay)
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff

In the breathtaking follow-up to Before Sunrise, Celine tracks down Jesse, now an author, at the tail end of his book tour in Paris, with only a few hours left before he is to board a flight back home to the States. Meeting almost a decade after their short-lived romance in Vienna, the pair find their chemistry rekindled by increasingly candid exchanges about professional setbacks, marital disappointments, and the compromises of adulthood. Impelled by an urgent sense of the transience of human connection, Before Sunset remains Richard Linklater’s most seductive experiment with time’s inexorable passage and the way love can seem to stop it in its tracks.


Bonus:
- Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny - this documentary film takes a closer look at Richard Linklater's career and body of work as well as the evolution of his style and his success in the United States and abroad. Included in it are interviews with actors Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, and Matthew McConaughey, filmmakers Kevin Smith and Jonathan Demme, writer John Pierson, editor Sandra Adair, Chuck Linklater (father), and Tricia Linklater (sister), amongst others. The documentary was directed by Louis Black for the PBS series American Masters in 2016.
- Linklater // On Cinema & Time - presented here is a brand new video essay by filmmaker Kogonada that examines the treatment of time and its evolving rhythm in Richard Linklater's films.
- Behind the Scenes - presented here is a standard archival featurette with footage from the shooting of Before Sunset in Paris and short interviews with cast and crew members.















Director: Richard Linklater
Writers: Richard Linklater (screenplay), Julie Delpy (screenplay)
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick

The conclusion of The Before Trilogy finds Celine and Jesse several years into a relationship and in the midst of a sun-dappled Greek retreat with their twin daughters and a group of friends. The couple soon find their vacation upended, however, by long-simmering problems that come to a boil. Marked by the emotional depth, piercing wit, and conversational exuberance that Linklater and his actors honed over two decades of abiding with these characters, Before Midnight grapples with the complexities of long-term intimacy, and asks what becomes of love when it has no recourse to its past illusions.

Bonus:
- Commentary - this audio commentary features writer/director Richard Linklater and actors Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. It was recorded in 2013 and initially appeared on the first Blu-ray release of Before Midnight from Sony Pictures Classics.
- After Before - presented here is a new documentary feature that was shot by coproducer and actor Athina Rachel Tsangari in Greece during the filming of Before Midnight in 2016. Included in it are clips from various discussions between director Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy, as well as raw footage from the shooting of various sequences.
- Love Darkens and Deepens - presented here is an episode of the radio program Fresh Air in which Terry Gross discusses the production history of Before Midnight and the evolution of the main characters, Jesse and Celine, since Before Sunset with Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke. The episode originally aired on May 30, 2013.







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