Movie Meetup — Before Sunrise — Meet from 7:15, film at 8:30

" ... a strange and wonderful moment-by-moment miracle ..."
— Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

We're going to see Richard Linklater's famous 1995 film, Before Sunrise.
This is the first film in The Before Trilogy.

We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 7:15 pm, to say hello and chat. After the film, we will stop for a while to share thoughts and reactions.

Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.

ABOUT THE FILM

"An exquisitely understated ode to the thrill of romantic possibility, the inaugural instalment of The Before Trilogy opens with a chance encounter between two solitary young strangers."
— Watershed summary

"A celebration of youth, time and moments of connection -- and about the experience of living in the midst of a simple, perfect day that you know you'll remember for the rest of your life."
★★★★★ Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

"about two kids, ... intoxicated by the fact that their lives stretch out before them, filled with mystery and hope, and maybe love."
★★★★ Roger Ebert, RogerEbert .com

"Not a romcom, not a romantic drama, but just … a romance, a brief encounter on a train without heartache, a strange and wonderful moment-by-moment miracle that never seems cloying or absurd.
"Richard Linklater’s film from 1995 is now re-released for its 30th anniversary, a stretch of time that gives us a chance to ponder the characters’ time-travel musings about their future selves. The two sequels Before Sunset (in 2004) and Before Midnight (in 2013) famously reunited the leads and gave us an episodic study of their growing old as a couple welded together by that amazing moment in Vienna."
★★★★★ Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

"Influenced by literature and philosophy, Linklater’s movies display an intense infatuation with verbiage, and the director has confessed to deliberately rejecting the famous filmmaking dictum of “show, don’t tell”. Adding to the sense that Linklater’s work is ‘uncinematic’ is his preference for building films around the thinnest of plots, placing the emphasis on nuanced characterisation over conventional storytelling.
"In short, Linklater’s cinema is the kind that viewers of a certain disposition will find infuriating – even if those more inclined to go with the flow are liable to find themselves falling in love with the characters he creates."
— Alex Barrett, BFI

Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy on Writing The Before Trilogy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CBFMAaWw_Y