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Past Lives

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are torn apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Twelve years later, Nora, now a playwriting student in New York, reconnects with Hae Sung online; they begin talking frequently, and even imagine a reunion. But another dozen years pass before they finally meet over a few fateful days in New York.

An aching, deeply romantic debut feature from playwright Celine Song (Endlings), Past Lives is a love story — indeed, several — told across three moments in time. Song’s artful aesthetic and profound character writing, and the spellbinding performances she draws from Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and John Magaro, explore love, identity, and “In Yun,” a Korean notion of fate stemming from two people’s connection in a past life.

Writer & Director

Celine Song


Country

USA

Distributor

Studio Canal

Year

2023

Reclaim The Frame Event

Screenings and Writing workshops

9 Sept 2023

Reclaim The Frame special screenings + special intros/writing worshops:


Catch a screening at our #ReclaimTheFrame partner cinemas from 7 September: 


Barbican

Broadway

Chapter

Curzon

Depot

Everyman(s)

Genesis (London)

Glasgow Film Theatre

HOME

Hyde Park Picture House

Plymouth Arts Centre

Phoenix Exeter

Picturehouse (Cameo)

Picturehouse (Central)

Picturehouse (Hackney)

Picturehouse(s)

Queens Film Theatre

Rio Cinema (London)

Showroom

Storyhouse

Watershed

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