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Next year coming fourth movie?


I hope so..

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Not so. In 2020, Ethan Hawke said the next sequel will be set two decades after Before Midnight. Which I think is very appropriate. Perhaps in 2031, we will catch up with Jesse and Celine. Or it could even be later than that. I have a hunch that the fourth movie will be called "After".

Honestly, that'll be much better. If the fourth movie came out next year, all Jesse and Celine would talk about would be Covid 19 and Donald Trump. That would be awfully boring. We need something deeper than those topics. I think the next 10 years will provide more depth to Jesse and Celine. And more drama to the idea of "After".

Jesse and Celine, see you in another decade.

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Yep, I think they did the right thing to leave it as a trilogy for now. I would never want them to feel forced to make a sequel, if Linklater is not inspired then it’s right to leave it.

A film, or perhaps trilogy, catching up with Celine and Jessie in their autumn or winter years would be more interesting, perhaps confronting the mortality that they have often discussed before.

My only regret is that Midnight was such a bitter experience with a devastating argument and sour ending. They really seemed to hate each other! But I have so much respect for Linklater, Delpy and Hawk that I’m happy to go wherever they want to take me…

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