Before Sunset

What ifs and second chances in the middle leg of Richard Linklater’s acclaimed romantic drama 

As part of Staycation Festival in the Howard Assembly Room and Kino, don’t miss this marathon of movie magic, as we screen all three films in the Before trilogy in one day. Book an antipasti picnic basket, handmade by the team at Kino, to enjoy at your table during the film and settle in…

Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy was filmed over 18 years, and follows the same couple, Céline and Jesse (played by Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke) as they meet, fall in and out of love, and travel through some of Europe’s most glamorous locations.

Before Sunset sees Céline and Jesse meeting by chance once again, this time in Paris, but after nine years instead of the promised six months. Both have moved on with their lives, and Jesse has a family in the US. Meeting at the Shakespeare & Company bookshop on the Left Bank, they reconnect as they walk the timeless streets.

“essentially a film about people talking. But when the talk’s this good, this absorbing and revealing and witty and true, who’s going to complain?”
– Philip Kemp, Total Film

Book all three Before trilogy films for £18 for a marathon of silver screen romance.