I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight is a 2020 Canadian romantic comedy film directed by Sean Garrity.Randall King, "Rom-com done right: Winnipeg actress radiates big-time charm in Garrity's latest big-screen project". Winnipeg Free Press, August 22, 2020. The film stars Kristian Jordan and Hera Nalam as Simon Friesen and Iris Dela Cruz, a man and woman in Winnipeg who meet when they both stop to help push a car out of the snow, and become a couple over the course of the film despite their initial lack of interest in each other.Barry Hertz, "I Propose That We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight wants to make Winnipeg Canada's rom-com capital: A late narrative turn holds back a film that comes so close to achieving its goal of complete audience seduction and surrender". The Globe and Mail, September 2, 2020.
Garrity chose to write the two central characters as a Mennonite and a Filipino Canadian, as both communities are prominent within Winnipeg but rarely represented in film.Randall King, "Culture clash: Winnipeg filmmaker mixes city's Filipino and Mennonite communities together for romantic comedy". Winnipeg Free Press, March 14, 2020.
The film had been slated to premiere in March 2020, but was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.Hal Anderson, "New movie to debut; Winnipeg filmmaker can finally show latest flick". Winnipeg Sun, August 15, 2020. Its premiere was rescheduled to August; Garrity contrasted its adjusted release strategy against the concurrent Christopher Nolan film Tenet, noting that the social distancing strategies still in place at movie theatres would complicate the release of a Hollywood film but were not all that different from the much smaller audiences that turn out for Canadian independent films even in normal times.Randall King, "Pandemic upends best laid plans for film: Local rom-com finally screening in two Winnipeg theatres after months of delay". Winnipeg Free Press, August 21, 2020.
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