I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight

2020 Canadian romantic comedy film

August 21, 2020 (2020-08-21)

Running time

102 minutesCountryCanadaLanguageEnglish

I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight is a 2020 Canadian romantic comedy film directed by Sean Garrity.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3]

The film had been slated to premiere in March 2020,^[3] but was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.^[4] 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.^[5]

References

^ 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.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b Randall King, "Culture clash: Winnipeg filmmaker mixes city's Filipino and Mennonite communities together for romantic comedy". Winnipeg Free Press, March 14, 2020.
^ Hal Anderson, "New movie to debut; Winnipeg filmmaker can finally show latest flick". Winnipeg Sun, August 15, 2020.
^ 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.