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Past Lives (2023)

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Past Lives (Celine Song, 2023)

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"What if this is a past life as well, and we are already something else to each other in our next life? Who do you think we are then?" PAST LIVES (2023) dir. Celine Song

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Past Lives (2023)

Dir. Celine Song

Language: Korean, English

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Of lost chances, forbidden love and remorse.

It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Films in frame: Past lives, La la land, Fleabag, Normal People, In the mood for love, Atonement, Potrait of a lady on fire, Maurice, Blue Valentine, Her

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PAST LIVES 2023 | dir. Celine Song

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past lives (2023)

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Past Lives works so well for me because I am so enamoured with pragmatism in fiction.

I read and watch a lot of stories about idealized love stories and I often enjoy them too! I spent my entire childhood believing that the teenagers who got together in the media I consumed would stay together forever. And then as I got older, I was naturally introduced to more stories about romances that didn’t work out. Still, it’s hard for me to think about those as pragmatic, most of them have this desire for sadness in them. They would make me feel as though the devastation was the point, that the narrative was forcefully bent toward the saddest outcome.

Past Lives doesn’t make me feel this way. Nora doesn’t stop talking to Hae Sung because of an unforeseen tragic circumstance. She makes a choice and goes through with it. Hae Sung puts it best during their conversation at the end of the film. She is the kind of person to leave. And he loves her because she is that kind of person. The “what-if” isn’t in wondering about if circumstances were different. No matter what, she would have chosen her plays over anything else. Her husband even notes that so much of how their relationship happened is because he fit so well into the life she wanted. The whole reason this film is called “Past Lives” is because that’s the only way to ponder about whether Nora and Hae Sung could be together.

It’s such a delightfully Asian perspective on it. “In another life” films are so common, but I always feel like Western movies do it in a kind of parallel universe kind of way. I love that in this one, Nora is so steadfast and consistent in her personality and desires, that there is no real contemplation and consideration of making her and Hae Sung’s relationship work. There is only a longing and a love.

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Past Lives (2023) dir. Celine Song

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Past Lives dir. Celine Song

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Honourable Mentions:

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"What if this is a past live as well, and we are already something else to each other in our next live? Who do you think we are then?" "I don't know." "Me neither. See you then." Past Lives (2023) Dir. Celine Song Movies watched in 2024

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Past Lives (2023)

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Past Lives (Celine Song, 2023)

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PAST LIVES (2023) dir. Celine Song

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PAST LIVES (2023)

Written and directed by Celine Song

Cinematography by Shabier Kirchner

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Past Lives (2023) | dir. Celine Song