PLEASE NOTE RESCHEDULED DATE: Tuesday 17th February

The first film in Richard Linklater’s acclaimed Before Trilogy presents Jesse and Celine, who meet by chance on a Vienna-bound train, and decide to spend time together, before heading their separate ways. Talk ensues, they muse on life and love, their mutual attraction evident, while Linklater’s easy, mobile camera brings us up close as the pair fall in love, wandering Viennese streets. Almost 30 years later, Celine Song’s Past Lives touched on a similar ‘what if’ theme, and the impact of a chance meeting on a life.

Columnist, journalist, and novelist Tanya Sweeney will introduce Before Sunrise for IFI Bigger Picture.

Notes by Alicia McGivern