Past Lives (Between Feierdeeg Screenings)

Past Lives

USA 2023 | Celine Song | vostEN | 105’ | digital | Cast: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro, Seung Ah Moon | 6

> Sundance Film Festival 2023

> Nominations Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay; Oscars 2024

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.

« The absolute immediacy of Lee’s performance allows you to feel every frame of Past Lives on your skin, which is crucial to a film that conveys the brunt of its meaning through sense instead of story; a film that commands its placid rhythms and ethereal fussiness with a confidence that elevates Song’s “people don’t talk like that” dialogue into a decisive plus. » (IndieWire)

« Past Lives is an exquisitely wistful drama that speaks with an honesty so affectingly crisp it will turn your conceptions of love, identity and fate on their head. » (The Wrap)