Past Livesalso frequently references the Korean word “In-Yun,” essentially their mythology behind reincarnation. Through this, Celine Song further dramatizes not just the love that could have been but what could happen or has happened across different lifetimes. This is the definition of a tearje...
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Past Lives is an honest, delicate, and ambling movie. Nora, once a little girl from urban Korea, chooses her path as an American writer after immigrating with her family. She marries a different writer (Arthur, a Jewish New Yorker), adopts the culture of NYC, and chases her ambition. ...
— as if this movie is not just about “past lives” in the sense of reincarnation (although that is occasionally discussed) but rather about those words as distinct concepts, and how one reflects on the other. The huge space between the words onscreen also foreshadows and mirrors the enorm...
For a movie that is only an hour and forty-six minutes, I was enveloped in every single character and certainly wouldn’t mind if there were to be a PLCU (Past Lives Cinematic Universe), discovering all the fates of our characters. Entirely engaging, I could watch them for another hour...
In the vein of classic movie romances, these lovers are ostensibly destined to be together, but must endure periods of disconnect to elevate an eventual reunion (not unlike “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” and, in its footsteps, “La La Land,” as well as “Broadcast News”). And with the...
then gaslight any movies that agree with them—and that was before the internet enabled a haphazard half-dismantling of the already-fragile big-studio movie pipeline. This makes it all the more impressive that Celine Song’s new moviePast Livessees the internet, particularly social media, with ...
Dynamics: There’s not a lot of big, grand stuff to sing about here on the 5.1 track forPast Lives. Heck, this probably would’ve worked with just a nice stereo track. Nonetheless, it fills the room and does the job in carrying a dialogue driven movie that is mostly populate with peo...
Greta Lee plays a writer observed at three points in time, with Teo Yoo and John Magaro as the men who both love her in Celine Song's 'Past Lives.
To that end,Past Livessmartly and beautifully incorporates Asian spiritual ideas into the themes of the film through recurring references to in-yun, a force that binds all of us together through all of time and space, manifesting love’s savage fury into something cosmic and grand. And both ...