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Before Midnight

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Have you seen this movie yet? Have you? HAVE YOU? Because you haven't... Put "Stupid" instead of "Crazy" and you got it!  This is the film in Richard Linklater's series of  capturing love between Jesse and Celine. You'd think that this is just another love story, one of the many, the unrealistic kind that doesn't happen in real life,  or yet another chickflick. But here's the thing.  You're wrong. So god damn wrong, if you think any of those. "You're a writer? You write...like...books?" The move is set in Greece, family holidays,  tables full of fresh food and fine wine. Endless intelligent, creative talks about everything between writers.  Picture of perfection.  But the peace is disturbed in the moment that Celine starts to feel threatened  in her big feminine world, like Jesse is going to turn her into a housewife, losing all her freedom, losing herself. From t...