#370 (no ads): Stranger Flings, Pt. 2 — Rye Lane (Patreon)

While the new Rye Lane shares a basic premise with 1995’s Before Sunrise — two strangers meet by chance and spend the day exploring a city and getting to know each other — Raine Allen-Miller’s film operates as a romcom first and foremost. Whether that’s to the film’s benefit or detriment is at the heart of our discussion of the new film, and Rye Lane’s romcom nature proves a frequent point of contrast when placed alongside Before Sunrise in Connections. It also inspires this week’s Your Next Picture Show challenge, to provide an on-the-fly recommendation of a great 21st-century romcom.

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Next Pairing: Cameron Crowe’s Jerry Maguire and Ben Affleck’s Air