If you loved Waking Life, try Before Midnight

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Richard Linklater, and they both carry the cerebral mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Waking Life, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Before Midnight is

Greece, summer's end, a patio overlooking the sea. A couple's conversation unwinds, years of life together fraying. Linklater revisits love in middle age.

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