Past Lives
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Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.
Cast
- Greta Lee
- Teo Yoo
- John Magaro
- Moon Seung-ah
- Leem Seung-min
- Ji Hye Yoon
- Choi Won-young
- Ahn Min-Young
- Seo Yeon-Woo
- Kiha Chang
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- Sep 2, 2023
found a version without subtitles, to get the full arthur experience
JayJun 19, 2023telling your long lost friend and potential lover to watch eternal sunshine is an act of emotional violence
Bobby WagnerJun 2, 2023Shoutout to the husband for being shockingly chill about this whole situation
Patrick Willems - Aug 23, 2023
Adding the — You dream in a language that I can't understand to my own depressing cinematic universe that already includes hits like: — I love you. It'll pass. — Feelings can creep up just like that. — I'll go. And I'll stay. — I think it's nice that we share the…
cinema excelsiorJun 25, 2023The white guy wrote a book called boner 💀💀
FramesofnickJun 17, 2023“you make my life so big” is such a stupidly beautiful thing to say to someone I’m throwing up vehemently
sawah 🦖 - May 22, 2023
Why do “what ifs” in movies hurt so good
jonathan fujiiAug 23, 2023”you're dreaming in a language that i can’t understand” what if i jump off a cliff?
júliaMar 27, 2023“In another life” type narratives are literally psychological warfare
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- Clay Werner lovedPast Lives
9.2 - gorgeously shot, well acted, and even more masterfully written and constructed. But while being emotional and beautiful, it didn’t have me as completely hooked as similar stories. Likely needs some time to digest and probably a second watch to fully sink in.
Bryan Beckel lovedPast LivesAn amazing story about how fate can sometimes tear apart or bring together. Song forces you to live out every gut wrenching moment between the characters, and it hurts. There is no good guy, no bad guy, and just like in real life, sometimes there’s no true happy ending.
AMock lovedPast Lives9.5/10 A beautiful film top to bottom. It takes the idea of “right person, wrong place/time” and showcases how intricate and layered those feelings can be. The camera work alone was something to behold, especially the long take at the end that left me absolutely floored
- Andrew Fink dislikedPast Lives
I hated it. Annoying characters. Unrealistic dialogue. Poor acting. This doesn’t deserve to be nominated as best picture not to mention a Nickelodeon kids choice award. 3/10 muhs
heather lovedPast Livesfavorite character: hae sung least fave character: nora favorite scene: hae sung leaving ny this movie was so good! so sad, relatable, and cute! the skype calls/disconnects felt so real and surprisingly not boring. i loved the awkwardness for him, you're someone who stays 💔
Your Movie Advisor dislikedPast LivesGot too boring to me - was extremely long without any action, I watched it while skipping forward all the silences.
- Ettore Ianniello lovedPast Lives
A debut that seems to carry years of expertise for a director that plays with light, movement and silence in creative and meaningful ways. The story penetrates your soul but teaches it a lesson, it does not give in to a perfect ending but rather embraces the simplicity of reality
Caleigh Foto likedPast LivesMy boyfriend @eski cannot understand that i can say it was a good movie but i didn’t like it, tbh thought it was really slow and i couldn’t connect or come to care about where the characters were going, but i did like the whole theming of her leaving her past life behind
Josiah Rosser likedPast LivesHits an emotional key that is hard to achieve in film. Beautifully shot and paced. A top ten love story after watching 30+ years of cinema. Watch it with an open heart and see what happens. Also, if you are a film bro, you are probably going to hate it. It is not Fight Club or JW
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- DGDiego Garcia
Bittersweet in the best way
KMKaitlyn MontanoIt can be slow at times but I think it’s realistic and the silences really tell a lot. It’s a great “what if” type of love story that you can truly relate to and may leave you in tears and pondering for days after.
KCkatherine carranzaonly because I didn’t cry as much as I thought i was going to but it was sad
- IGItzel Gonzalez
I enjoyed the movie but being in a relationship and seeing the husband allow the reencounter irritated me a little. Great story overall and raw but not the best movie within this trope.
MUMinkook UmWhat a heart break!
MNMichelle NguyenThis movie was beautifully filmed. It gave me butterflies.
- VVVictor Victor
This movie surprised me. I thought it was going to be some middle aged woman fantasy about reuniting with a lost childhood friend but it ended up being a pretty good tragedy about two Korean people losing each other slowly.
RMRobert MIt was amazing
JCJean-Charles CharifaGreat story and cinematography is top notch.
Metacritic
Jun 9, 2023
It’s a rare movie that settles, quietly, into some part of your own experiences and memories without a speck of narrative contrivance gumming up your response to the story on the screen. Past Lives is that rarity.
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
May 31, 2023
Past Lives, the graceful debut feature from the Korean Canadian playwright Celine Song, stands a world apart from most of today’s slick movie fare.
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
Feb 20, 2023
Diverging from romances in which lovers are expected to move heaven, earth, and themselves in order to make a moment of love last forever, Past Lives asks us to embrace the changes that come with time.
Pat Brown
Slant Magazine
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