Pretty much everyone who loves movies is a fan of the Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight series from Richard Linklater. They represent the pinnacle of love stories in cinema, and they’re hard to top. The closest any film has come to feeling like this is Richard Tanne’s Southside With You, a story about Barack Obama’s first date with Michelle Robinson in Chicago in back in 1989, many years before he would become President of the United States. The film just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the same venue where I saw, and went head over heels crazy for just a few years ago, Linklater’s Before Midnight. It’s a very sweet, engaging, and inspiring love story that unfolds as Barack takes Michelle around the city over the course of one day. ›››
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