Review: In 'Past Lives,' writer-director Celine Song explores the pull of lost loves and lives unlived
Nora is torn between her current life with Arthur and old crush Hae Sung .opens with a heck of a shot. The camera slowly zooms in on an Asian woman and two men — one Asian, one white — chatting at a bar. Their conversation is muffled by ambient sound, but a pair of offscreen observers can be heard, attempting to untangle the relationship dynamic of this trio from across the room, based solely on their body language.
Twelve years later, the twenty-something Na Young is an aspiring playwright in New York City when she hears through the family grapevine that Hae Sung has been looking for her on social media. They eventually reconnect via a video call, and she learns that he’s still living in Seoul and studying for an engineering degree following his compulsory military service. Nora’s Korean might be a little rusty, but they’re both visibly beaming at this digital reunion.
Then Hae Sung abruptly breaks over a decade of silence: He’s going to be in New York for a couple of nights. Would Nora want to meet up? Arthur is understandably anxious at the reappearance of this childhood sweetheart, but Nora’s interests in reuniting with Hae Sung are more contemplative than romantic . In Hae Sung, she sees a window to the life that she left behind and the little girl she once was.
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