A refreshing counter-point to Hollywood's typical happily ever after stories.

Unleashing a stream of feminist consciousness that is both outraged and outrageous-and cathartic because we are laughing with her, not at her-Céline emerges as a 21st-century hero and Delpy as the Carole Lombard of our time.

While the film has certainly satisfied many audiences and critics across the board, I was left very cold and bewildered, questioning what I even saw.

Serving as the apex of the trilogy, Before Midnight asks both: what is love and where do we go from here?