A comedy inspired by legends and myths of Ancient Greece, and by the biographies of the most trendy and popular characters of Moscow’s social Olympus. The film’s hero is a Greek, who decides to repeat Odyssey’s journey but accidentally sails the wrong way. He finds himself in modern Moscow, where he gets acquainted with well-known personalities. These celebrities unselfishly perform incredible nonsense, while the Greek immediately fames himself as a problem-solver. And his advice always works, even if not quite the way the customers want. But the main problem which the Greek must solve is his own. He falls in love with Maria, the wife of Moscow’s “Zeus”. And to conquer her, the Greek must first rescue all the “gods” on the Moscow Olympus.

Athina Rachel Tsangari and Richard Linklater first met in Austin, Texas – just before he made Slacker (1990), in which she appears briefly on screen. Over two decades later, Linklater was shooting the third instalment of his Before trilogy in Tsangari’s native Greece – and once again invited her to join the production. In After Before, Tsangari turns her camera on Linklater (injured leg, worn Criterion Collection T-shirt), Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke during what may be their final day inhabiting the roles of Céline and Jesse.

镜头像黏到约高的身体里，我们无时无刻都感受到他的饥肠辘辘。年轻瘦小的约高，前胸已顶到后背，为了不成理由的自尊，每日三餐都饥不择路：偷邻居老伯几块饼干、几口白糖，和笼中的伴儿金丝雀分吃雀粟，更吞掉自己体液。偶然嘹亮唱起巴哈的众赞歌，才知道他的职业，和灵魂。剧场已成名的导演首部长片惊艳各地电影节，以戴丹兄弟般的轻灵镜头，呈现布烈逊的内在真实世界。看希腊现况吧，寓言非无的放矢。真我演出的男主角在卡罗维伐利电影节赢得特别表扬奖。

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.