Past Lives

Director: Celine Song

2023 / 105min / DCP

Nora and Hae Sung, close childhood friends in Seoul, see their bond broken when Nora’s family emigrated from South Korea to Canada. After two decades of separation and sporadic meet-ups, they’re reunited in New York as adults (Greta Lee and Teo Yoo) for one fateful week, together confronting questions about destiny, love, fate, regret, and the irrevocable choices that shape a life in playwright Song’s tender, intimate feature debut. “Song draws you into her characters’ worlds seamlessly… In a sense it’s a time-travel movie, because even as the two characters keep moving forward, they remain inexorably tethered to the past, which means it’s also a story about everyday life.”—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times