Before Midnight

Haven't felt this way in a long time. That euphorically hollow feeling you get when you know that you have experienced something truly special but in your heart of hearts you know that it has come to an end. Like a great holiday, book or in this case, film series. Before Midnight was the final part in a long running trilogy and it was absolutely spectacular. We find the two main characters much more pessimistic with age but they also feels so much more real. The characters are so palpable and performed to perfection it is difficult to believe that each and every scene wasn't improvised. Every conversation is worth listening to and opens up your mind to a different style of thinking about the things that really matter (and don't matter) in life, and not in a pretentious, superficial way. Walking home from this film I was just stunned and delighted to have seen a final part in a significant film trilogy on the big screen, by myself no less. Just please, if you are reading this, go out and see Before Sunrise, Sunset and Midnight in that order. They are film of an exceptional caliber and very different to anything you have ever seen before and are easily the most effortlessly romantic I have ever seen.